Filing a case against protesting truck drivers and the drivers' strike

The judiciary announced the opening of a legal case against protesting truck drivers and the drivers' strike.

Truckers and heavy vehicle drivers went on strike on May 19. The strike began in Bandar Abbas and spread to various cities. On Tuesday, May 26, drivers in the cities of Arak, Mahidasht, Kermanshah, Ahar, and Gonabad stopped their daily activities and joined the strikes.

Now, a week after the truckers' strike began, the judiciary has announced that cases have been opened against them. Kamran Mirhaji, the public and revolutionary prosecutor of the capital of Fars province, announced that cases have been opened against the drivers for legal action.

While accusing drivers of preventing cargo and goods transportation services, he said: "A number of those disrupting the activities of truck drivers in Fars Province have been dealt with judicially, some have been arrested, and cases have been filed against some."

On Monday, a number of other truckers and cargo truck drivers in various cities stopped working and joined the strikers in protest of their demands and livelihood and union problems. 

Reza Akbari, head of the Road Transport and Highways Organization, also said about these strikes: "A small number of drivers are trying to create unrest, and these actions are the result of incitement by hostile foreign media outlets, who want to portray the country's roads as unsafe." He also accused Persian-language media outlets abroad of presenting an exaggerated picture of the problems of truck drivers. 

The Union of Truckers and Drivers Organizations of All Iran announced in a statement that the police attacked some of its colleagues with pepper spray and arrested some of them. In response to the repeated repressive actions of the Islamic Republic's agents against drivers during the strikes of the past few days, the Union of Truckers emphasized the continuation of the strike until the demands of this union and the rights of truckers are addressed. 

In its statement, the union announced that 105 cities had joined the protests and reiterated that the strike would continue until all of the union's demands were met. 

The strike of truck drivers and all heavy vehicle drivers and the disruption of the import and export of goods from the south to the north of the country have plunged Ali Khamenei and the regime's agents into great fear. Many people, while supporting the massive truck drivers' strike, announced that Ali Khamenei is surrounded by people's strikes across the country and if these strikes continue, Khamenei and his agents will definitely prefer to flee.

The people also declared that we are all standing together to take back our Iran.