Iran: More than one week of protest of 1,000 workers at Navard Pipe Industry
The protest and strike of about 1,000 employees of Navard Pipe Industry in Saveh, southwest of Tehran has continued since last week. Employees of this company gathered in the factory ground refusing to go to the work. This strike started on Wednesday Jan. 15th and has continued since.
Workers complain that not only their salaries have not been paid, the bonus for working in a harsh and dangerous environment has not been paid either.
Workers complain that not only their salaries have not been paid, the bonus for working in a harsh and dangerous environment has not been paid either.
Tehran: youth clash with the aggressive Basij militants
A group of youth of Sadeghia district of Tehran clashed with a number of suppressive Basij militants using sticks and knives and other non-lethal weapons. The clashes started at 8 PM Tuesday Jan. 20th when the Basij militants approached and harassed two young men for the improper dress code, according to the mullahs’ regulations. The young men’s friends and people who were at the scene approached and attacked the Basijis chastising them and giving them a good lesson they wouldn’t forget.
Iran: Brave young Iranian women resist and defy mullahs’ imposed mandatory dress code
The Iranian regime’s strict women’s dress code has become a source of friction between the people and the regime, the commander of Morality Police has admitted.
Colonel Mohammad Massoud Zahedian said ’improper veiling’ had now become a ’security issue that threatened’ the regime.
He told a group of clerics at a seminar on ’the Hejab and chastity’ in the city of Qom on Sunday (January 19): 'Improper dressing and avoiding wearing the veil is one of the oldest issues in Islamic society and for police today this issue is a point of friction between the rulers and the body of the society.
'And many of those avoid the dress code have themselves grown up in religious families. This issue of improper veiling has turned to a security issue that is threatening our society.'
'The Hawza (the seminaries), Seda and Sima (the official radio and television network) and the State Security Forces (police) must do their utmost to make address the Hejab (the regime’s dress code) as an important social issue.
'Mixed gender parties where the Hejab is not worn are on the increase in Tehran, and this is a source of serious concern.'
Imported satellite TV equipment was also a threat to the country’s chastity, he said.
Colonel Zahedian added: 'The anti-social function of the social networks in the country is another threat to chastity because it creates behavioral changes that will lead to changes in thinking, and create a structural change in the Islamic system that threatens chastity.
'The majority of those we confront regarding being improperly veiled and dressed are born in the 1980s… What has gone wrong?'
He also told the seminar that his forces had identified and arrested 30 underground fashion shows and arrested all those involved.
In the seminar, Cleric Mohammad Reza Zaibai-Nejad, the director of a center for research on family issues, said: 'If you ask the police what people’s reaction is to being told they are improperly veiled, they protest. This indicates that what we are doing is not working.'
'If we counter public opinion with harsh methods and stand against the whole of society, nothing will be achieved.
'Today’s generation is different from the one or two generations before. Their threshold for being provoked has become much lower, and their threshold for fulfilment has become much higher. They become angry very easily.
'If they do not achieve their goal in the cultural arena, it will outbreak in the political field.'
He also warned: 'If we lower the measures that have been taken, society will become more emboldened and corruption will expand, and if we become too harsh society will collapse.'
“The widespread rejection of compulsive veiling in Iran is a collective statement against the regime,” representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) has stated.
Mrs Soona Samsami wrote in article in The Hill: “The mullahs have turned the voluntary dress code in Islam into a very strict rule. As a consequence, a clear way of expressing opposition against the theocracy, even for Muslim women, has been to defy their misogynist rules.”
“Compulsory veiling and the systematic suppression of women by the Iranian regime shows that they politicized Islamic fundamentalism and extremism in the region long before the Islamic State (ISIS).”
The remarks by the regime officials admitting to their failure exposes “the face of a weak and desperate theocracy unable to curb increasing social opposition to its rule - led by women.”
Colonel Mohammad Massoud Zahedian said ’improper veiling’ had now become a ’security issue that threatened’ the regime.
He told a group of clerics at a seminar on ’the Hejab and chastity’ in the city of Qom on Sunday (January 19): 'Improper dressing and avoiding wearing the veil is one of the oldest issues in Islamic society and for police today this issue is a point of friction between the rulers and the body of the society.
'And many of those avoid the dress code have themselves grown up in religious families. This issue of improper veiling has turned to a security issue that is threatening our society.'
'The Hawza (the seminaries), Seda and Sima (the official radio and television network) and the State Security Forces (police) must do their utmost to make address the Hejab (the regime’s dress code) as an important social issue.
'Mixed gender parties where the Hejab is not worn are on the increase in Tehran, and this is a source of serious concern.'
Imported satellite TV equipment was also a threat to the country’s chastity, he said.
Colonel Zahedian added: 'The anti-social function of the social networks in the country is another threat to chastity because it creates behavioral changes that will lead to changes in thinking, and create a structural change in the Islamic system that threatens chastity.
'The majority of those we confront regarding being improperly veiled and dressed are born in the 1980s… What has gone wrong?'
He also told the seminar that his forces had identified and arrested 30 underground fashion shows and arrested all those involved.
In the seminar, Cleric Mohammad Reza Zaibai-Nejad, the director of a center for research on family issues, said: 'If you ask the police what people’s reaction is to being told they are improperly veiled, they protest. This indicates that what we are doing is not working.'
'If we counter public opinion with harsh methods and stand against the whole of society, nothing will be achieved.
'Today’s generation is different from the one or two generations before. Their threshold for being provoked has become much lower, and their threshold for fulfilment has become much higher. They become angry very easily.
'If they do not achieve their goal in the cultural arena, it will outbreak in the political field.'
He also warned: 'If we lower the measures that have been taken, society will become more emboldened and corruption will expand, and if we become too harsh society will collapse.'
“The widespread rejection of compulsive veiling in Iran is a collective statement against the regime,” representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) has stated.
Mrs Soona Samsami wrote in article in The Hill: “The mullahs have turned the voluntary dress code in Islam into a very strict rule. As a consequence, a clear way of expressing opposition against the theocracy, even for Muslim women, has been to defy their misogynist rules.”
“Compulsory veiling and the systematic suppression of women by the Iranian regime shows that they politicized Islamic fundamentalism and extremism in the region long before the Islamic State (ISIS).”
The remarks by the regime officials admitting to their failure exposes “the face of a weak and desperate theocracy unable to curb increasing social opposition to its rule - led by women.”
Tehran: shop owners protest against government intimidation to mandatory decorating illumination
Iranian government officials working at a committee setup to oversee the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution have force shop owners located at the Enghelab Ave to the Azadi Sq. to decorate and illuminate their shops and the pavement in front of their shops for the anniversary. The order is that if any shop that disobeys this order would be closed.
Most shop owners on this street that are against this order and consider the anniversary as a 'misery for Iranians' say that they are protesting this order.
Most shop owners on this street that are against this order and consider the anniversary as a 'misery for Iranians' say that they are protesting this order.
Iran: Protest gathering of 200 teachers
About 200 teachers of Shahrood city, northern Iran, staged a protest against the unsettling situation of life for teachers. This protest gathering took place in front of the ministry of education Mosque.
At this gathering on Jan. 20th teachers protested the low quality life due to low wages and demanded that the government pay attention to their grievances.
At this gathering on Jan. 20th teachers protested the low quality life due to low wages and demanded that the government pay attention to their grievances.
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