Striking steelworkers in Iran: “Incompetent authorities, resign! Resign!” 

On 10th December 2018, striking workers of the National Steel Group of Ahvaz in Khuzeatan province, Iran, protested again in the city of Ahvaz on the 31st day of their strike.

The striking workers along with members of the public first gathered in front of the provincial governor’s office where they chanted slogans against embezzlers, incompetence and carelessness of the authorities. The protesters expressed their outrage at the government and the inhuman conditions that are imposed on the people. They shouted “Incompetent authorities, resign! Resign!” and other slogans.

The protesters blocked the road in front of the office and home of Mr Jazayeri, representative of Ali Khamenei in the province, and shouted slogans against “thieves and parasites” and vowed to stay in the streets until their demands are met.

“Let her go, let her go” a strong group of workers charged at the armed forces when they tried to take away a captured journalist. In the sensational scene the workers managed to free the journalist.

In the evening of 1oth December, a group of striking steelworkers attended a meeting of government officials in a mosque where the workers raised their voices against the reps “Why don’t you identify the mafia? Name them! Name them! They have destroyed our lives.”

 

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