Protests and strikes continued in several cities across Iran on Tuesday, May 16, as the economic crisis caused by the regime continues to push more segments of society into poverty and systemic crackdown on all strata renders the nation’s rage toward dangerous heights.

Meanwhile, the clerical dictatorship has been increasing the number of brutal executions in a bid to postpone its downfall. Eight inmates in the cities of Bandar Abbas, Minab, Khorramabad, and Rasht were sent to the gallows. At least 90 inmates have been executed since April 21.

The Oil Contract Workers’ Organizational Council of Protests has issued a statement regarding the ongoing nationwide strike by the country’s oil, gas, petrochemical steel, and mine workers that has continued for about a month now: “During this period different contract workers from across the country have left their workshops and other job sites to join the nationwide strike. As a result, tens of thousands of workers are involved in this movement.”

Authorities are announcing the arrest of strike leaders in an initiative aimed at increasing crackdown measures against the thousands of South Pars workers who are on strike in southern Iran. A deputy governor of Bushehr Province has claimed that the South Pars workers’ strike is an organized movement with “support from foreign networks”.

People in the city of Karaj, west of the Iranian capital Tehran, the Shahrak-e Bagheri district and an area near Evin Prison of Tehran held anti-regime rallies on Monday night and chanted anti-regime slogans, including:

“Down with Khamenei!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“We don’t want a child-killing regime!”
“We will stand to the end!”