The Independent daily, published in Britain, reporting the Iranian parliamentary elections and the comprehensive boycott of that elections by the people, wrote:
Erfand caught sight of me, notebook in hand, talking to Iranian voters outside the polling station on Tehran’s Vanak square on Friday. “Hey, why don’t you talk to somebody who didn’t vote?” he called out in impeccable English. “We hate this regime and our crazy president,” he went on .
Erfand is a student at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University. If the Islamic police had heard him, he would have been hauled off to jail before he had finished his snack. And to challenge the Islamic system means possible execution.

“We don’t vote because it won’t make any difference,” he said.
Mohamed, a 22-year-old student, said: “It’s not just me, but any young person. You can’t do anything, you can’t demonstrate, there are no rallies, they would arrest you. I voted in the last election, but not again.
Sepideh, an accountancy student, joined in. “We have no hopes for the future,” she said. “Our parents can’t afford a house – so how can we?” For Sepideh, the fear of the Morality Police is real. Over 2 million people, both men and women, have been detained in the last two years of the government’s fashion crackdown against youths with “inappropriate” hairstyles and women whose headscarves reveal too much hair.

One confrontation ended up on YouTube. A girl was arrested for “bad hijab” and some boys stepped in to support her against the police. Then a lot of people gathered and started to chant anti-Islamic slogans.”We have no security,” said Sepideh. “We are afraid of being arrested by the police. What can we do? Nothing. They say we have to obey.”