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Strikes at sensitive industrial sites continue across Iran

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Steel workers on strike - Shadegan, southwest Iran - April 24, 2023 - protests - paychecks - salaries - bonuses
Steel workers on strike in Shadegan, southwest Iran - April 24, 2023

Iran’s nationwide uprising is witnessing its 221st day on Monday as more workers of the country’s sensitive industrial sites are joining an escalating campaign of strikes spreading throughout Iran. At least 76 oil, petrochemical, steel, copper, and other industrial sites in 27 cities throughout 11 provinces are seeing their workers walk off and launch strikes, protesting their officials’ refusal to increase their salaries, demanding their delayed paychecks, and voicing their frustration over poor food low-quality housing/resting facilities at their sites.

MEK Resistance Units and protesters across the country are increasing their anti-regime measures and attacking the mullahs’ interests in solidarity with Iran’s hardworking laborers who are courageously continuing their strike as we speak.

People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij units, alongside other security units that are on the ground suppressing the peaceful demonstrators.

Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 282 cities. Over 750 people have been killed and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

MEK Resistance Units and brave protesters in various cities checkered throughout Iran are escalating their measures against the mullahs’ regime in solidarity with the country’s brave workers who are on strike these days. These measures include:

  • Brave youths using Molotov cocktails attacked a foundation (boniyad) in Jam, southern Iran, used by the mullahs’ regime to plunder the locals
  • MEK Resistance Units torched a sign of the state security forces in Pasargad, south-central Iran
  • Brave youths attacked a “seminary” in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, used by the mullahs’ regime to promote their ideology of hatred, misogyny, and fundamentalism
  • Brave youths attacked the IRGC paramilitary “Basij Organization” associated to the municipality in Tabriz, northwest Iran
  • MEK Resistance Units torched a “compulsory hijab” poster in Sari, northern Iran
  • MEK Resistance Units torched a poster of the IRGC in Tabriz, northwest Iran
  • Brave youths attacked a “seminary” associated to the IRGC paramilitary Basij in Qom, central Iran
  • Brave youths attacked bases of the IRGC paramilitary Basij in Ardabil, northwest Iran, and Dezful, southwest Iran
  • MEK Resistance Units torched images of Khamenei and former IRGC Quds Force chief in Tehran, Dezful, and Babolsar
Protesters attacking regime sites across Iran - April 2023
Protesters attacking regime sites across Iran – April 2023

Brave youths attacked a regime judiciary office in the town of Abbas Abad in northern Iran on Saturday night, April 22, in response to the regime’s security forces and judiciary agents attacking local farmers, killing two people and injuring another five. The regime’s forces and agents were attempting to confiscate the local farmers’ lands based on forged documents. Multiple explosions were reported in this area as a result of this attack.

In the city of Yazd, central Iran, MEK Resistance Units portrayed a large image of Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi on Javad-ol-Aemeh Street.

Reports from different regions of Iran indicate that workers of various industrial sites across the country are continuing their strike on Monday. These industrial sites include oil, petrochemical, steel, and copper plants and mines where workers are complaining about being denied their paychecks and basic rights. The protests reported on Monday from the following sites, among many others:

  • Contract workers of a steel plant in Shadegan, southwest Iran
  • Contract workers involved at a copper plant in Rafsanjan, central Iran
  • Contract workers involved in an LPG site in Asaluyeh, southern Iran
  • Contract workers involved in a local petrochemical site in Gachsaran, southwest Iran
  • Contract workers involved in safety procedures in an industrial site in Kangan, eastern Iran
  • Contract workers at the Der Alo Copper Mine in Kerman, south-central Iran
  • Contract workers of various industrial sites near Isfahan, central Iran
  • Contract workers at the Madkush steel company in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran
  • Contract workers of a local industrial company in Jask, southeast Iran
  • Contract workers of the Rezhin Sanat Company in Chabahar, southeast Iran
  • Contract workers of the Gostaresh Steel Company in Shadegan, southwest Iran
  • Contract workers of the Sarcheshmeh Janpars Copper Company in Kerman, south-central Iran
  • Contract workers of the Fraptrosazan Company in Jask, southeast Iran

Dozens of industrial sites reported strikes by their workers on Sunday, including:

Iranian opposition coalition NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi praised the country’s brave workers who are continuing their strike in the face of Khamenei and IRGC despite all odds.

“I commend the workers and laborers who are currently on strike fighting for their rights. As long as the clerical regime remains in power, poverty, unemployment, and inflation will continue to rise, and the conditions for workers and laborers will deteriorate. The sole concern of this regime is to maintain its shameful rule under its supreme leader. Khamenei and the IRGC have exhausted the country’s resources in this pursuit. The ultimate solution lies in overthrowing the religious dictatorship and establishing a free, democratic republic and the people’s sovereignty,” explained the NCRI President-elect.

Locals in the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of Tehran were chanting anti-regime slogans on Monday night, including:
“Down with the IRGC!”
“Down with the Basij!”

Pensioners and retirees of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the city of Shush in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, began holding a rally and marching on Monday, protesting high prices, poverty, corruption, inflation, poor living conditions and officials’ refusal to address their demands.

The protesting workers were chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Neither the Majlis (parliament) nor the government care about the people!”
“High prices and inflation are killing the people!”
“Enough with pledges and promises! We have nothing to eat!”

Pensioners and retirees are among the worst-hit segments of Iran’s society. They depend on government stipends to make ends meet, but the regime has refused to increase their pensions in correspondence with growing inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.

The government has long provided many hollow promises of increasing pensions. It was also supposed to settle unpaid pensions remaining from previous years. So far, it has yet to deliver on both demands.

Interestingly, the regime’s own media reported that The Social Security Investment Company (SHASTA), the financial institution that is supposed to fund retirees, has seen a significant increase in its profits in the past years. However, these profits have yet to materialize in the lives of pensioners and retirees.

Nurses and medical staff of various medical centers in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan, western Iran, rallied outside the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences  on Monday protesting their economic woes and demanding answers.

Dump truck drivers are on strike and gathering outside the Kazerun municipality office  in Fars Province seeking answers and officials to address their demands.

Employees and retirees of the Kurdistan Communications Department are protesting outside this office building in Sanandaj on Monday demanding regime officials address their issues and dilemmas. Similar protests are being reported from Tehran, Khorramabad, Mashhad, Anvaz, Ardabil, Sanandaj, Isfahan, Rasht, Karaj, Shiraz, and Shahrekord.

Regime operatives have relaunched their chemical gas attacks targeting the country’s schools and mostly innocent schoolgirls on Monday. The all-girls Me’raj and Esmat schools in the Hassan Abad district of Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, has been targeted, according to the Hengaw Human Rights Organization. At least 20 students were poisoned and transferred to a hospital to receive medical care, according to reports.

Further reports indicate the all-girls Ma’edeh and Mastureh high schools, both located in Sanandaj, have also been targeted in deliberate and organized chemical gas attacks targeting innocent children, especially girls. Similar gas attacks were reported in the cities of Tehran, Hamadan in western Iran and Karaj, a large city located west of Tehran.

Fans at a derby game in Tehran on Sunday were chanting anti-regime slogans against the mullahs’ IRGC. Security forces stationed at the capital’s renowned Azadi (Freedom) Stadium responded by attacking the protesting crowd. Authorities had dispatched anti-riot security units to the stadium and its surrounding area in anticipation of anti-regime protests erupting at the site where more than 100,000 people usually gather for such games.

People in the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of the Iranian capital Tehran were chanting anti-regime slogans on Sunday night local time. Their slogans included:
“Down with Khamenei! Damned be Khomeini!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“We don’t want a republic of execution!”
“We don’t want a child-killing regime!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali [Khamenei] is overthrown!”

The protests in Iran began following the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, who traveled to Tehran with her family, was arrested on Tuesday, September 13, at the entry of Haqqani Highway by the regime’s so-called “Guidance Patrol” and transferred to the “Moral Security” agency.

She was brutally beaten by the morality police and died of her wounds in a Tehran hospital on September 16. The event triggered protests that quickly spread across Iran and rekindled the people’s desire to overthrow the regime.

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