Reported by PMOI/MEK
Iran, Nov. 23, 2018 – In recent days, Iranian resistance units have shown their support for the ongoing protests of the workers of Haft Tapeh sugar mill in Shush and the Ahvaz steel factory in Khuzestan province.
On Wednesday, members of the resistance unit no. 888 in Saveh, Markazi province, set fire on a large billboard with the picture of Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime in support of the workers of Ahavaz and Haft Tapeh. The members of the resistance unit have left a banner at the sight that reads, “Death to Khamenei, we support the protests of the workers of Haft Tapeh and Ahvaz.”
In Sari, Mazandaran province, the members of resistance unit no. 151 set fire on a banner with the picture of Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, which was installed in Emam Blvd. In the video they sent of their work, the members of the resistance units are holding banners in support of the workers of Haft Tapeh and Ahvaz steel.
In a statement published on November 18, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said: "Shoosh has risen with the cries of workers, and solidarity and strike of youth, teachers, and merchants of the bazaar. The enemy attempts in vain to silence the Haft TAppeh deprived workers by suppressing and arresting them, but the cry of ‘we are hungry, hungry’ of the children of Shush, calls the conscience of every human being to rise up against the oppressor mullahs.”
Mrs. Rajavi called on all youth, especially in Khuzestan, to support the uprising of Shush and the Haft Tappeh and Ahvaz Steel strikers, and urged international human rights defenders and labor and trade unions to condemn the repressive measures of the religious fascism ruling Iran against the workers and to take urgent action for the immediate release of the arrested.
