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Pensioners continue to protest against the lack of attention to their legal and livelihood demands

A number of retirees from the Steel Fund and retirees and pensioners from the Social Security Organization in some Iranian cities held rallies to criticize the failure to address their legal and livelihood demands and chanted protest slogans.

Steel Fund retirees in some major cities held protest rallies every Sunday, emphasizing that the pension of four to five million tomans is insignificant in the face of rampant inflation and is not enough to cover their living expenses.

These protesting pensioners and wage earners have been holding various rallies in front of the Steel Fund building in the cities of Tehran, Isfahan, and Khuzestan for a long time, demanding that pensions be brought down to the minimum poverty line, free medical care, and reform of the equalization ordinances.

According to available reports, the steel pension funds and similar funds are refusing to fully implement the equalization plan, despite the government's resolution and the approval of the board of trustees of these funds.

The government has approved the Steel Pension Fund and similar funds to implement the equalization plan with their own budget and approval from their board of trustees, but the Steel Fund is not subject to the full implementation of this resolution. Today, protesting Steel Fund retirees in Tehran chanted slogans such as "One less embezzlement, our problem will be solved" in protest of the current conditions.

According to videos published on social media today, retirees and social security pensioners gathered in the cities of Mashhad, Tabriz, and Rasht to protest the failure to implement equalization of rights and demanded that their livelihood demands and meager salaries be addressed.

Rasht social security retirees have also long emphasized their demands for the government to withdraw its hand from the social security fund, for real equalization, and for fighting high prices and inflation. At today's rally, they chanted the slogan "Scream out of all this cruelty."

A protest rally was also held in Tabriz in this regard.

According to official statistics, about three million people in Iran live in absolute poverty, and about sixty percent of the Iranian population is below the poverty line. The livelihood crisis and rampant inflation in Iran in recent years have led to dozens of protests by teachers and workers, in addition to the protests of retirees, which have in some cases been met with severe repression and arrests of union activists by security agencies.

Source: Voice of America

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