On 27th December 2018, teachers and retired teachers in Isfahan and Urmia held assemblies in front of the buildings of the Provincial Ministry of Education to pursue their demands, including free education for all, an end to poverty, an increase in wages to above the poverty line, an end to injustice, and the release of jailed teachers.
In Isfahan, special armed forces attacked the protesters and used pepper-spray against them but the teachers and the retirees stood their ground and continued to chant their slogans.
The armed forces also attacked anyone who used a mobile phone but some managed to share clips and pictures of the protest. One of the protesters who was attacked by the armed forces for using a mobile phone was freed by the teachers who came to his aid.
One of the protesters told a reporter: “There is nothing positive in Iran. People’s problem is poverty.”
The protest in Urmia went ahead as planned.
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