Iran protests—June 11, 2023: On Sunday, June 11, people from various social backgrounds and professions in Iran took to the streets to voice their demands for basic rights and a decent standard of living. They gathered together in different cities and provinces, seeking fair treatment and the means to sustain themselves and their families.
Steel mill workers from Malayer in Hamadan Province, western Iran, gathered to express their dissatisfaction with authorities’ refusal to pay their wages over the last six months. Nevertheless, local officials responded to the protest by deploying security forces, who used pepper spray and batons against the protesting workers.
In the capital Tehran, footage was posted on social media showing disabled locals protesting the regime’s refusal to implements its own laws on supporting disabled individuals. Regime security forces were dispatched and tried to dismantle the gathering.
In the city of Kermanshah, also located in western Iran, disabled residents took to the streets on Sunday morning. Their rally outside the Provincial Health Organization aimed to denounce the regime’s failure to uphold its own laws concerning the support of disabled individuals.
Similar gatherings have been held in the cities of Kerman, Qom, Arak, Borujerd, and Ardabil.
Retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization in the cities of Kermanshah and Shush, western and southwest Iran, respectively, rallied and held gatherings on Sunday protesting poor living conditions and medical care, among other rights and demands.
In Kermanshah, western Iran, retirees and pensioners of the regime’s Social Security Organization rallied to protest poor living conditions and medical services and voiced their economic woes.
Locals in the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of Tehran, the capital of Iran, began chanting anti-regime slogans on Saturday night, including “Down with the dictator!” This is a direct reference to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Workers of the Hepco Sugarcane Company in Arak, central Iran, held a gathering on Saturday protesting retirement rules that will put further pressure on their livelihoods.
