On Thursday, September 11, 2025, Iran’s rebellious youth carried out 15 fiery acts of protest in response to the plunder of workers’ and laborers’ earnings. They struck symbols of the regime’s corruption and crimes in Arak, Alborz, Qazvin, Kerman, Kermanshah, Ilam, Sarbaz, Rasht, Isfahan, and Mashhad.
Supporting the oppressed workers at the Arak Aluminum Company, the Abad Rahan Company in Bandar Abbas, the Iranian Offshore Oil Company in the Sirri region, and the Aghajari Oil and Gas Company, they set fire to banners of regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei and regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini. They also targeted the regime’s centers of fundamentalism, plundering, espionage, and suppression as follows:
- Attacking a regime center of fundamentalism and crime in Arak
- Setting fire to signboards for the espionage units of the IRGC Basij in Qazvin
- Incendiary attacks against a regime building in Arak
- Setting fire to regime building in Nazarabad, Alborz province
- Setting fire to a center of fundamentalism and terrorism in Isfahan
- Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Kermanshah
- Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base tasked with suppressing students in Kermanshah
- Setting fire to images of Khomeini, Khamenei, and terror master Qassem Soleimani in Kerman
- Setting fire to a banner of Khamenei in Qazvin
- Setting fire to a banner of Khamenei in Ilam
- Setting fire to a signboard for the Ministry of Intelligence’s espionage department in Kermanshah
- Setting fire to a signboard for the IRGC Basij’s espionage department in Sarbaz
- Setting fire to a banner of IRGC commanders in Rasht
- Setting fire to a banner of IRGC commanders in Mashhad
These operations coincided with the 44th day of protest by 4,000 workers at the Arak Aluminum Company. On this day (Thursday, September 11), Tehran’s security police forces entered the factory to intimidate the workers and break their hunger strike. However, the workers, insisting on their demands, announced they would continue their hunger strike until Monday. They stated that if the promises made were not fulfilled by that day, they would resume their gathering and dry hunger strike.
In their series of operations on September 11, the rebellious youth lit the guiding light of rebellion for the workers and laborers of Iran against the oppressive and plundering mullahs’ regime.
Ten days earlier, rebellious youth had also struck at symbols of government plunder and corruption in response to the brutal suppression of hardworking street vendors in Qazvin by the IRGC. On Monday, September 1, the heroic youth responded to the brutal assault by the municipality’s savages and plainclothes agents on the deprived and defenseless street vendors in Qazvin by setting fire to images of Khamenei in Zanjan, Kerman, and Kermanshah, and attacked regime buildings in Qazvin.
During this period, workers of Abad Rahan in Bandar Abbas also went on strike against government corruption and plunder. Workers at the Iranian Offshore Oil Company in the Sirri region and the Aghajari Oil and Gas Company, fed up with the mullahs’ oppression and looting, also protested.
The extent of the mullahs’ plunder and oppression is such that on September 8, Rouydad 24, a state-run media outlet, ran an article titled “The Cry of Workers for an Immediate Wage Increase; Tables are Empty and Livelihoods are on the Verge of Collapse,” in which it pointed to some of the unresolved and dire problems of workers, writing: “While inflation and rising prices of goods and services make people’s lives more difficult day by day, workers, as one of the most vulnerable segments of society, bear the most pressure. Field studies show that a large part of the workers’ monthly income is spent on rent and food costs, and for other essential needs such as treatment, education, and clothing, they have no choice but to make severe savings.”
The root cause of the “empty tables and livelihoods on the verge of collapse” for the toilers and the deprived is the rule of the oppressive and plundering mullahs’ regime, and the only solution is to uproot this tyranny and oppression through uprising and overthrow.