Reporting by PMOI/MEK
Iran, December 5, 2020—On December 1, municipality workers of Sisakht county, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, protested local officials’ refusal to deliver their paychecks for several months.
"About 50 days ago we received our salaries for March," said one of the protesting workers.
They have not been paid for the last eight months.
“Most of the workers are facing exhausting difficulties,” he added. “With wages and workers’ insurance premiums still unpaid, workers' worries have doubled due to the conditions caused by the Covid-19 outbreak,” he added.
Protests by contract workers of Ahvaz Municipality
A group of contract workers of the municipality in the city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, held a rally in front of the city council on Thursday, December 3, protesting the lack of job security.
These workers also recently held a rally in front of various regime establishments, demanding six-month delayed paychecks. As a result, the municipality paid two months of their wages and promised that all their paychecks would be paid in the next few days. Protesters say no wages have been paid after several days.
On Wednesday, December 2, a group of contract workers in the city of Mashhad, Razavi Khorsan province, gathered in front of the city's social security building, seeking answer to their demands.
On Tuesday, shop owners in the city of Bojnourd, North Khorasan province, protested the government's lack of support, demanding that the Covid-19 provincial headquarters to support their livelihood.
Floods in Sarbandar, Khuzestan province
Meanwhile, citizens in Khuzestan province are protesting the regime’s lack of support during rainfall and flood season. In Sarbandar county, the city has been flooded with sewage due to lack of drainage and other facilities.
“If authorities can live with this smell, then I will too,” said one citizen of Sarbandar, whose house has been flooded and now smells of sewage. “How can I tell my wife and children to live here? What is their fault? What is my fault?”
“They’ve sold all sewage pumps, and this is what has happened,” another citizen said.
“The country’s officials are not on our side,” another citizen said.
“Our bodies are becoming infested with parasites. This is sewage, the most polluted substance,” said another citizen.
“The water will go, but not the smell, what should we do with this situation, with all the problems in our society, with the rising prices?”
Regime officials have yet to provide support to the citizens of flood-stricken areas.
