Reported by PMOI/MEK
Iran, May 2, 2019 – Following a nationwide teachers’ call to march on the occasion of Teachers’ Day on Thursday, teachers in dozens of cities in Iran including; Tehan, Torbat-e Haidariah, Sanandaj, Urmia, Yazd, Hamedan, Divandareh, Malard, Tabriz, Qazvin, javanrood, Ardebil, Kermanshah, Homayounshahr, Sari, Khorrmabad, Marivan, Mahabad, Karaj, Mashhad and a number of other cities took to the streets to protest and formed gatherings in front of the local offices of education in their cities.
Hamadan, one of the protesting teachers give a speech
Yazd; teachers’ gathering on Teachers’ Day
Tehran: teachers and education workers rally in front of the ministry of education
Kermanshah: Teachers and education workers gathered to mark the Teachers’ Day. They were heard chanting “Majlis (parliament) and the government are not caring about the teachers.
Ardebil: Teachers’ rally marking the Teachers’ Day
Kermanshah: Teachers’ rally
Teachers in Hamadan were holding handwritten placards reading:
Imprisoned teachers must be freed
Stop privatizing schools and education
Children must receive free and quality education
We demand decent pay for our work
In Tehran, marking the Teachers’ Day, teachers and education workers gathered in front of the ministry of education in the capital. They were carrying handwritten placards reading:
Imprisoned teachers must be freed
Imprisoned workers must be freed
Your pain is our pain, people must rise up and join us
A group of teachers and education workers in the city of Malard, in Tehran province, rallied to mark the teachers’ Day. They were carrying posters and placards reading:
Free education is the right of every child
We demand salary and wages above the poverty line for teachers and pensioners.
The followings are photographs of teachers’ rallies in different cities obtained so far as this report is prepared.
More cities are said to join the nationwide rally.
Isfahan: teachers rally to mark the Teachers’ Day
Ardebil: Teachers are holding placards showing solidarity with the nationwide teachers’ rally
Javan-rood: Teachers are holding a protest rally
Divan-Darreh: Teachers’ rally
Hamadan: Teachers are protesting while holding signs that shows their demands
Tabriz women teachers are joining the nationwide protest rally
Devan-Darreh: More images of teachers rallying
Qazvin: Teachers are rallying in front of the local office of education ministry
Qazvin: More images of teachers’ protest
Qazvin: More images of teachers’ protest on Teachers’ Day
Karaj: Teachers are holding protest rally in front of local office of education ministry
Malard: Teachers are holding protest rally
Kurdistan: hundreds of teachers took to the streets to demand their rights
Hamadan: More images of teachers holding protest rally
Urmia: teachers protest rally
Malard: teachers’ protest marking the Teachers’ Day
Sanandaj: Teachers, men & women are joining the nationwide protest rally
Sanandaj: More images of teachers protest
Sanandaj: More images of teachers holding a nationwide protest rally
