Self-immolation of Omid Rashedi, head of administrative affairs of Ramshir Guild, who was fired after he disclosed embezzlements by a regime element

On September 24, Mr. Omid Rashedi Amiri, an Arab compatriot from Khuzestan and a 36-year-old father of two who had committed self-immolation the previous day in protest to being fired from Ramshir Municipality after a dispute with the head of the town’s guild lost his life. Mr. Rashedi who had a masters in accounting and financial affairs and was the head of the administrative affairs of this guild, a while back revealed the embezzlements by the head of this union who is an Iranian regime element. The head of the guild returned to his post after a temporary detention, but Mr. Omid Rashedi who was a contract worker at this guild was fired from his job.

The growing oppression, unemployment, homelessness, social problems, addiction and prostitution has led to an increase in suicides and self-immolations in the cities across the country.

On August 30, Mansour Kayhani, a retired teacher and father of four, who was fed up with regime’s extorsions in issuing construction permit for his house, poured gasoline on himself in front of Sanqar Governor’s building and set himself ablaze and lost his life.

On July 12, a worker in a Mashhad bakery committed self-immolation following a dispute with her boss.

On May 20, Zarrin Kamrani from Safiabad village in Javanroud, set herself ablaze and lost her life due to poverty and the hardships associated with it.

In mid May, a 27-year-old worker of Farasou factory who had a six year old child committed self-immolation and lost his life in protest to his expulsion from work.

On May 7, a female student committed self-immolation in the parking lot of the department for human sciences of Free Islamic University in Shiraz-Pardis as a means to protest.

On May 4, Farinaz Khosravani with a bachelor degree in computer science plunged from the fourth story of a hotel to escape the aggression of an Iranian regime’s intelligence agent and lost her life.

On April 27, Ali Akbari, 45 and an employee of Daroupakhsh Factory and father of four jumped off the fourth floor of this factory to end his miserable life. He committed suicide because he was unable to pay the heavy expenses for the medical treatment of his child (ILNA state news agency – 27 April 2015).

On April 21, Hamid Farokhi Diezej Malek, 43 and father of three who was a deprived street vendor lost his life due to the severity of his burns. He had committed self-immolation in front of 8th District town hall of Tabriz on April 13 to protest the confiscation of his petty property by Iranian regime’s forces.

On March 22, Younes Asakereh, 31-year-old worker and father of two, an Arab compatriot from Khorramshahr, lost his life in self-immolation. Ten days earlier, he had committed suicide in protest to the repeated attacks of the suppressive forces to his street stand who prevented his work.

On March 21, Abdolkarim Ahmadi, a laborer from Divandarreh, hanged himself at the age of 60. He was unable to support the basic needs of his family and ended his life after years of hardship.

The Iranian workers and toilers are suffering from poverty, hunger and unemployment while Iran’s great wealth is spent on domestic suppression, antinationalistic polices of export of terrorism and warmongering in the region, and weapons of mass destruction projects or is plundered by regime’s leaders.

As long as the velayat-e faqih regime is in power, the lot of the deprived is nothing but suppression, poverty, hunger, prostitution and addiction. The sole solution to end such tyranny and oppression is to topple the antihuman regime of the mullahs and establish democracy in Iran.