Iran: Raport of protests

                     
                      

Bandar Abbas: Job seekers’ demonstration in front of the governor’s office
Young job seekers who were looking for work in Bandar-Abbas Steel Company and had passed the exams and job interviews, but were denied the job for some unknown reason, gathered for the nth time in front of the governor’s office in that city to demand answers to why have they been dined despite passing all tests and interviews. They insisted that the local government must provide them with jobs which they are entitled to.

Iranian parents in Kerman protest the rise of school tuition for their children
A number of parents of those children who had been discharged from Fariab technical school in Kerman, southern Iran, gathered on Sunday in front of the local educational office to protest the unprecedented rise in the tuition of their children calling the increase as another means of extortion by the regime’s authorities. 
Schools official backed by the government of Rouhani had dismissed 7 students from the school for not being able to pay an amount of 300,000 Rials for tuition to the school. 
The official in question threatened the protesting parents that if the money was not paid until certain date, their children would be barred from attending first term examinations.  

Iran: Workers’ protest gathering of Azmayesh Factory

In the city of Marvdasht, Southern Iran, employees of Azmayesh House Appliances’ company gathered Monday morning to protest agaisnt unpaid wages and salaries for past two years. They also expressed anger at the dismissal of a dozen fellow workers form the company. The protesting workers demanded the return of those dismissed workers. 
They were chanting 'We demand to be paid' and 'the salary of Azmayesh employees must be paid in full.'

Tehran: Protest gathering of workers and structural assistant engineers

A group consistent of 'workers and structural assistant engineers' staged a protest gathering in Imam Hussein mosque, located in Shariati Street, Tehran-pars. This was the nth time during past few months that such a demonstration is being held. 
One protesting worker said we have gathered here to protest against the difficulties we have with our insurance policy and the lack of a defined framework for our salary payments.
The government does not pay attention to our needs, and the life and death of employees have no value in the eyes of the management.  

The protest gathering of the industrial group of "Rose-Gas Compound" in Kashan

A number of the workers of the industrial group 'Rose-Gas Compound' in Kashan gathered on Saturday Jan. 10th in front of the governor’s office, protesting the probable shut down of this industrial group. 
A frustrated worker complained that they were worried about their job security. He said if the unprecedented increase in the rate of the basic raw material does not stop, and the needed foreign exchange would not be enough to help the financial protection that the industrial group is in need of, this production unit will be shut down in about months.
 It is worth noting that the industrial group 'Rose-Gas Compound' is one of the prime producers of gas for oven appliances that is now on the verge of bankruptcy due the increased price of bread and lack of basic raw materials and lack of financial resources.