Iran demonstrations continue as a statewide truckers' strike gets underway

 


People from all walks of life are still participating in anti-regime demonstrations in Iran, including seniors who have organised fresh rallies and truckers who have begun their statewide strike. On Sunday, retirees from the regime's Social Security Organisation took to the streets of several towns to protest their meagre wages and demands for their rights as inflation continues to climb and the cost of necessities continues to soar.

People in Iran continue to hold the supreme leader of the mullahs, Ali Khamenei, specifically accountable for their suffering, while also denouncing the oppressive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), paramilitary Basij units, and other security forces that are repressing peaceful protesters on the ground.

Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 282 cities. Over 750 people have been killed and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

According to recent reports, courageous young people in Kermanshah, in western Iran, stormed an IRGC Ground Forces and 29th Division facility there. In this incident, which happened early on Monday morning local time, there were several explosions. When they become accessible, more information will be given.

In Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan in southwest Iran, retirees and pensioners of the regime's telecom industry are protesting their meagre pensions and difficult economic circumstances on Monday. Numerous other cities, including Arak, Kermanshah, Ilam, Shahrekord, Bojnurd, Isfahan, Zahedan, Hamadan, Mashhad, and Rasht, have also reported similar protest rallies. This is a continuation of earlier meetings that took place during the previous few weeks and months in Tehran and other cities around the nation.

Iranian seniors have been protesting their worsening living conditions for the past several years, especially because the government won't raise their pensions to reflect inflation and changes in the value of the rial, Iran's national currency.

The walkout by heavy vehicle drivers in Arak, Markaci (Central) Province, central Iran, began on Monday in protest of their predicament and the mullahs' autocratic government.

The Ramak Khodro vehicle company's duped investors protested and demanded the restoration of their stolen capital during a rally organised outside the regime's Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade on Monday in Tehran.

In the village of Gojag in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, state police opened fire on villagers who were protesting a decision by regime officials ordering the demolition of two homes there. Activists claim that many residents have suffered injuries.


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