Reported by PMOI/MEK
Feb. 27, 2019 – As the mullahs’ regime seeks to at least temporarily recover from the resignation crisis of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, protests are being reported by people from all walks of life throughout the country.
In Karaj, west of Tehran, rail workers rallied to express their protests over not being paid for several months and strongly criticizing officials’ hollow promises. The protests are happening in parallel to similar protests by railway workers in different cities.
Rail workers protesting in Karaj, Iran – February 27, 2019
In Tehran, students of Sharif Industrial University were seen protesting in some of the largest dormitories of this campus, demanding measures to provide security in and around the campus and bus transfer services from dormitories to the college campus.
Youths in Dezful, southwest Iran, held a rally outside mayor’s office and raising a variety of issues in their protests.
In Neyshabur, northeast Iran, a group of clients of the Caspian credit firm, associated directly to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) rallied outside the city’s provincial governor office to protest delays in answers to their demands.
Caspian credit firm clients holding a protest rally – February 27, 2019
In Borujerd, western Iran, municipality workers rallied for the third time outside the city’s Central Town Hall building, protesting not receiving their paychecks for the past eight months and even their New Year bonuses that was due last March.
Borujerd municipality workers rallying again – February 27, 2019
In Shush, southwest Iran, family members of jailed labor activists Esmaeel Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian, along with a number of Haft Tapeh sugarcane mill workers, rallied outside the city’s courthouse seeking answers about the two’s circumstances.
Members of Esmaeel Bakhshi’s family holding a protest rally – Shush, SW Iran – February 27, 2019
