Resistance is spreading across Iran. Nurses and healthcare workers have launched a campaign demanding the release of detained colleagues. 210 lawyers have condemned the January massacre and called for accountability. Teachers, truck drivers, retirees and students are all raising their voices. Universities are being forced online as the regime panics over growing protests, yet students continue to boycott virtual classes and call for new demonstrations. French trade unions have declared solidarity.
Nationwide solidarity grows: nurses, teachers, students, workers and retirees demand freedom for detainees
27 February 2026
Protests and solidarity campaigns are expanding across Iran. From universities to hospitals, from truck drivers to retirees, growing sections of society are demanding the immediate and unconditional release of detainees and an end to repression.
Nurses and healthcare workers launch campaign for detained colleagues
On 25 February, the Organising Council of Nurses’ Protests announced a campaign for the release of detained nurses and healthcare workers. Many were arrested simply for fulfilling their professional and humanitarian duties during the January crackdown.
Dozens of nurses, doctors, medical residents, pharmacists, physiotherapists and medical students remain imprisoned. The Worker-communist Party of Iran fully supports this campaign and demands the immediate and unconditional release of all detained healthcare workers and all detainees.
210 Lawyers condemn the january massacre
In a powerful statement, 210 Iranian lawyers condemned the regime’s killing and shooting of protesters. They declared:
- The shooting and killing of citizens must be prosecuted and punished.
- Proceedings in illegitimate courts such as Revolutionary Courts lack legal validity.
- The criminal responsibility of those who ordered and carried out the repression cannot be erased or time-barred.
International solidarity expands
On 23 February, five major French trade union confederations — CFDT, CGT, FSU, Solidaires and UNSA — issued a joint statement expressing solidarity with the people of Iran. They called for:
- An immediate end to repression
- Release of detainees
- A halt to executions
- Freedom of association and assembly
- Sanctions against regime leaders
- Lifting sanctions that directly harm the Iranian people
Support for Iranian students and protesters continues to grow internationally.
Teachers arrested, students still imprisoned
Repression against teachers continues. In Fariman (Mashhad), teacher Vahid Ghasemi and his mother Mahnaz Haddad were arrested. Numerous other teachers remain detained across the country. Approximately 50 school students are also believed to still be imprisoned.
The Coordinating Council of Teachers’ Trade Associations has launched an important campaign for the release of detained colleagues and imprisoned students.
The Worker-communist Party supports this campaign and calls for nationwide protests for the freedom of all detainees.
Regime panics over expanding student protests
Fearing the continued spread of student protests, the regime has shifted multiple universities online, including Azad University branches in Parand, Kerman, Tehran North, Gilan and Tabriz; Damghan University; Allameh University; Isfahan University of Art; and others.
At Alzahra University, students were expelled from dormitories following their participation in protests, further intensifying anger.
Students across universities have called for boycotting virtual classes and announced further demonstrations for 28 February and 1 March.
Healthcare students at Beheshti University of Medical Sciences joined protests, chanting:
- “Cannons, tanks, fireworks — the clerics must disappear.”
- “Free the imprisoned student.”
Broad support for student protests has been declared by truck drivers’ unions, the Democratic Students Union of Kurdistan, the Bus Workers’ Syndicate, the Teachers’ Coordinating Council, and the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign.
All detained students and all those arrested during January and recent weeks must be immediately and unconditionally released.
Truck drivers issue ultimatum
After authorities revoked 70% of operating permits of diesel drivers in Kermanshah, drivers issued a one-week ultimatum:
If fuel cards and permits are not restored within seven days, they will block city entry and exit arteries and paralyse freight transport.
This is a civil stand for the right to livelihood. The effective response to government intimidation is organised strike action.
Retirees call for nationwide gatherings
Social Security retirees in Kermanshah and Rasht have called for demonstrations on 1 March as part of their ongoing Sunday protests.
Retirees in Rasht declared:
“Every day brings news of arrests and death sentences for survivors of the January freedom uprising. The regime believes it can crush this tidal wave — but that is an illusion. We return to the streets.”
Their demands include the release of imprisoned lawyers, teachers, workers, children, protesters and students.
Universities, hospitals, schools, transport sectors and retirees are increasingly becoming interconnected fronts of resistance.
The Worker-communist Party of Iran condemns the regime’s escalating repression and calls for broad, united nationwide protests for the immediate and unconditional release of all detainees.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
27 February 2026
