Iran protests, June 6, 2023: Retirees and pensioners from Iran’s telecom industry staged rallies on Tuesday, June 6, protesting against their meager pensions and challenging economic conditions. These demonstrations, following a recurring weekly pattern, were reported in various cities, including Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Zahedan, Shahrekord, Mashhad, Shiraz, Ilam, and Rasht.
This ongoing trend builds upon previous gatherings held in recent weeks and months in Tehran and other locations nationwide.
Over the past few years, retired individuals across Iran have been voicing their concerns about deteriorating living conditions. The state’s refusal to adjust pensions in line with inflation rates and fluctuations in the national currency, the rial, has been a major point of contention.
In separate reports from inside Iran, residents of Taft, located in the central parts of Yazd Province, held a gathering outside the local governor’s office on Tuesday. They were protesting the severe shortage and, in some cases, the absence of drinking water in their town.
Meanwhile, workers on the morning shift at the Khorasan Steel Complex in Firouzeh, situated in Razavi Khorasan Province in northeast Iran, went on strike on Tuesday. They were protesting against low wages and inadequate pension benefits.
Residents of Abbas Abad, a town in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran, expressed their opposition to a verdict issued by a regime judge on Tuesday. The ruling authorized authorities to seize property belonging to locals. In the past two months, at least three young individuals were killed by regime security forces and operatives as they resisted authorities’ attempts to confiscate their real estate and lands.
In an act of defiance, courageous youths in Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province in southwest Iran, launched attacks targeting two bases belonging to the IRGC paramilitary Basij units. These assaults were carried out in response to the recent increase in executions by the regime.
Similarly, brave youths in Bavi, located in Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran, staged an attack on a local State Security Forces site. The incident took place early Sunday morning. The attack was a direct response to the regime’s recent wave of executions.
