Teachers held protest rallies across Iran on Thursday, November 11, 2021
Demonstrations were reported in 51 cities, including Tehran, Qom, Kermanshah, Qazvin, and Hamedan. Iran’s teachers are living in utter poverty and thus demanding better wages based on rising inflation.
They are also demanding fair access to employment and education law reforms. “All we’ve heard have been pledges, yet we’ve seen no justice!” the teachers chanted.
The protesters also demanded the release of detained teachers. Iranian teachers have been regularly protesting since September.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), remembering the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising, hailed the protesting teachers, educators, retirees, and farmers, and said: Khamenei, Raisi, and other ruling murderers cannot evade the Iranian people’s Call for Justice, and the anger of the arisen people fed up with their oppression and injustice and have no way out.
The cries of Iran’s freedom-loving teachers across Iran, chanting today, “Teachers rise, defend your rights,” and “free imprisoned teachers” echo calls of all the Iranian people.
On the anniversary of the November 2019 uprising, I hail the arisen teachers, educators, retirees, and farmers and pay tribute to the martyrs.
