Iran: Workers, Toilers, Bazar Merchants, Retirees, and Looted People Continue Strikes and Protests Across the Country

Iran Uprising – No. 91

In spite of repressive measures and a variety of government tricks to silence the people's protest, the strikes and protests of workers, merchants, retirees and looted people continued throughout the country on Tuesday, February 27:

1. On Tuesday morning, various groups of retirees, including educators, nurses, paramedics and retirees, gathered in front of the ministry of labor in Tehran's Azadi Avenue. Groups of retirees from West Azarbaijan Province came to Tehran to participate in the rally. They chanted: “If there would be no robbery in the country, our problem would be solved”; they carried banners which said: “Iran's retirees – United! United”;

In fear of the spread of this protest, the regime's agents took the protesters inside the ministry. Ali Rabiei, Minister of Labor, Rouhani, former Deputy Minister of Intelligence, and Member of Parliament Soheila Jelodar Zadeh tried to calm them with rhetoric and deception. But the retirees booed them and interrupted their words by chanting “liars, liars”.

The rally took place while intelligence agents had summoned a number of organizers over past days and threatened to detain them to prevent the rally.

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