Iran: Protest & Clash

Iran, Ardebil Steel Company workers in limbo

According to labor sources in Ardebil, northern Iran, the Steel Company CEO has been noticed by the state authorities on Tuesday Feb 17 that if the company did not pay salary to its employees, the factory would be released to the Saderat Bank. But despite the official notice, factory employees say there is no hope of receiving any money from the company management and even if the entire management and the CEO was replaced, the factory in on the verge of collapse and cannot pay its employees any money. 

Tehran: Protesting people clash with police in Firoozgar Hospital

A number of people gathered in front of the reception of Firoozgar Hospital on Tuesday Feb. 17th, to protest against the hospital’s refusing to take more patients and lack of facilities and medical care provided to the impatient.  
Following the protest, a number of police forces and security authorities tried to push the people out of the hospital by force, but the protesters resisted and clashes erupted between the protesters and hospital security forces. 

Tehran: A group of car owners protested city police extortion by tearing up traffic fines collectively

Shop owners and visitors who have parked their cars on the side of one of the streets in Tehran reacted angrily to a traffic police who had written a series of fines to all cars parked on this street. Car owners and drivers collectively took the stack of fine to the police who was still writing new fines and tore them up right in front of him. They said we are not going to fill your pockets with bully money. 
The government of Iran has been notified its agencies to try to collect as much money as they can to replace the budged lost due to sanctions and plummeting oil prices.