{"id":8877,"date":"2018-12-17T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:10:56","slug":"steelworkers-ahvaz-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/reports\/2018\/12\/steelworkers-ahvaz-iran\/8877\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrouded Steelworkers\u2019 protest in Ahvaz, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steelworkers of the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz<\/a>, Khuzestan, continue their protest for their overdue wages, various problems, mismanagement and corruption in directing this industrial complex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Steelworkers also demand the return of the INSIG to government ownership. The factory was sold to the private sector under deceitful conditions. The private owners are affiliated to the corrupt ruler, Khamenei, and the Revolutionary Guards\u2019 figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new round of strikes and protests of the steelworkers of Ahvaz entered its second month while many steelworkers, wearing shrouds<\/a>, staged a rally in front of the governorate of the regime in Ahvaz while the slogan \u201cWe resist, we die, but we do not bow to injustice,\u201d was written on their white shrouds. The Steelworkers also were chanting: \u201cLest we surrender to injustice\u201d; \u201cNeither threat nor prison, they have no effect anymore!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the protesters moved across the city, many other Ahvaz citizens joined them and expressed their support for their demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to the Iranian students\u2019 support for the steelworkers\u2019 protests, the workers chanted: \u201cstudent, worker, unit, unit!\u201d, \u201cJailed workers must be freed \u201c, and \u201cJailed students must be freed.\u201d
\nOne of the workers gifted a rose flower to the students who have been supporting the protests of Ahvaz workers in recent days, saying, \u201cThis flower is for the students who are hearing our voices and stand with us.\u201d
\nThe regime\u2019s highest officials were harshly targeted by the steelworkers in their slogans: \u201cNeither the ruler nor the state \u2013 no one cares about the nation\u201d, \u201cNeither ruler nor the state, cannot overcome the workers\u201d, targeting the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to Rouhani\u2019s hollow promises during his presidential election campaign who showed a key as a symbol of solving the problems and overcoming the society\u2019s locked situation, boasting of his administration as \u201cthe government of prudence\u201d, the furious demonstrators chanted, \u201d Rouhani, the liar, where is your prudence key<\/a>!?\u201d and \u201cInflation, high prices, answer to us Rouhani\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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