Continuation of Economic Protests in Iran; Retirees in Various Cities, Steel Workers in Ahvaz, and Livestock Herders in Yazd
Ahvaz steel workers, protesting the failure to meet their demands for wage increases and resolution of economic hardships, ceased work for the second consecutive day on Monday, February 15th and held a march.
According to citizen reports, protesting workers chanted “Steel worker, unity, unity,” calling on their fellow colleagues to join the protests.
Karim Siahchi, one of the protesters, said in his remarks: “God’s victory is near,” and emphasized: “One truth can never be erased, and that is our struggle.”
Ahvaz steel workers protested in front of the provincial governor’s office and simultaneously, municipal workers also gathered in front of the governor’s office protesting non-payment of their overdue wages. The two protesting worker groups joined together and chanted “Steel, municipality, unity, unity.”
In another event on Monday, livestock herders in Yazd announced a strike by holding a protest gathering in front of the city’s slaughterhouse.
One of the protesters stated that the Minister of Agriculture had “made beautiful and colorful promises to livestock herders” and with “hollow promises” caused “all of their productive livestock” to die over the past few months.
This protesting herder, noting that the protesters’ message is directed at the people, emphasized by pointing out “they are suffocating us livestock producers in the bud”: “We ourselves have come with spontaneous action to say that the food security of our country has been endangered. We ourselves have gone on strike to say don’t go buy meat in the coming years for 700,000 tomans per kilogram.”
