Iran: protests & strike

                     

Tehran: City workers of Capital’s district 22 protest

According to reports from inside Iran, city workers assigned to district 22 in Tehran gathered in front of the ’Olympic Village’ city hall on Thursday Jan, 15 to protest unpaid wages for past 3 months.
With the decreasing prices of oil and the government corruption on rise in Iran, the government does not have money to pay its employees’ salary making such protests a daily occurrence in Iran.

Iran: Boojan refrigerating company workers protest

Former employees of Boojan Refrigerating Company in Khorram-Abad, western Iran, protested against unpaid wages and salaries on Tuesday Jan, 13 in front of the main company headquarter. 
One protesting employee said the factory has been closed for some times due to financial problems, but we were promised to be rehired and get back to work upon reopening. But this did not happen. The company has been reopened and we are out of job, the company management did not act upon its promise and its pledge. And our efforts to regain our old jobs have so far failed. 

Tehran: Car owners and Taxi drives clash with Basij militants

A group of Basij militants under the orders of the hardline mullahs imposing the hated law of 'Enjoining of Virtue and Prohibiting Vice' staged almost a dozen check points on Azadi Blvd, from Tehran University to Enghelab Blvd. stopping cars and creating a traffic jam on Thursday Jan, 15. The move created heavy traffic preventing a normal flow of traffic. The move was to check inside the cars for the so called bad Hijab women and since drivers wouldn’t allow these annoying Basijis to search inside their cars or to pick on women for not observing mullahs imposed hijab, the traffic became intolerable and angering many drivers. 
Eventually, fight broke out between drivers and the Basij militants bringing the traffic to a near halt. Some other cars and drivers did not pay any attention to the check points and rushed through barriers.   

Iran: Factory workers’ protest

Many factory workers from ’Apadana Saram’ company in Qazvin protested on Tuesday Jan, 13 against lack of job security and not being able to sign contracts with the company. 'Apadana Sarm' is the largest ceramics and tile factory in Iran, but is now working only with %15 of its total capacity and is on the verge of shut down. Protesting employees said we don’t have any job security and we could lose our job any day, so we are demanding a firm response from the government to enter in to contract with us.

Karaj: Fear of being punished by youth forced Basij elements to back off

Two Basij militants attempted to harass and arrest two young women under the pretext of bad veiling in Adhamia district of Karaj on Tuesday Jan 13th. The two young ladies were traveling in their own private car when they were stopped by these unpopular Basij intruders. 
The two young women then called local people and other passersby to come to their help. As soon as half a dozen youth gathered and started to boo the Basij militants, they decided to flee and leave the scene before being beaten by the crowed.