Iran: silent army of unemployed people will topple the regime

Neglecting population and housing numbers in the past few years, and lack of adequate planning by the government, have led to a major unemployment crisis in the society, in a way that one can say a silent army of unemployed people will lead to the toppling of any government, warned Secretary-General of Iran’s House of Economics.

“For each college student we must consider two unemployed individuals with lesser education. This means in the next few years we need to create 15 million new jobs,” Massoud Daneshmand said.

“Around $70,000 dollars is needed for every new job; meaning we need a budget of $10 billion to have the college students graduating in the next few years entering the job market not end up unemployed. The government cannot provide for such a budget and there is a need for foreign investment,” he continued.

Iran: more than 70% of architecture graduates are unemployed

Increasing unemployment crisis in Iran – “We youths are unemployed”

More than 70% of Iran’s construction graduates are unemployed, according to remarks made by the chair of the Architect Guild Center.

“We have fallen asleep and lost any sense of time, and our architecture community has lost its effectiveness. If up to last year 60% of our architecture graduates were unemployed, these statistics have now reached above 70%,” said Mohammad Reza Noruzian in an interview with Mehr news agency, associated to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.

Iran: Warning! 5 million educated unemployed Iranians

 

More and more young men becoming unemployed in Iran

Reza Rahmani, chair of the Iranian Parliament Industrial Commission said, “All industrial ministries must get to work because the unemployment alarm has been sounded, because in addition to the other unemployed people, we now have more than 5 million educated unemployed people across the country.”

Speaking on Saturday night in the regime’s Chamber of Commerce session in the city of Tabriz (northwest Iran), Rahmani said Iran is now 117^th in the world in employment.

500 truck drivers on strike in northern Iran

500 truck drivers went on strike and staged a rally outside the Sarbandar terminal in northern Iran, according to reports received from inside the country. These truck drivers staged their strikes and protests on Thursday and Friday, May 5^th and 6^th, demanding higher pay for long range loads. The current pay is very low and they have extreme difficulties making ends meet due to skyrocketing prices.

Various drivers attacked the director of this terminal for neglecting their requests. Due to the strike staged by the truck drivers a large amount of goods scheduled to be transferred to different areas have been left in this terminal. This is the third strike staged by these truck drivers in the past few months.

Iran: Truly, what is the share of Iran’s society for these children?

 Children of Iran

Let’s take a quick trip together, visiting the neighborhoods and gray streets of Iran. Let us see the cities’ busy highways. Let us hear the voice of Iran’s innocent children. They spend days and nights in these crowded streets amongst these vehicles, behind red lights, in busses, metros and other public areas of the city. With their desperate looks to the face of the people passing by to maybe sell a flower, some nuts, a newspaper or maybe a box of napkins. Yes, this is the share of Iran’s vast ocean of oil for these children!

Iran: labor unions, associations make call for Labor Day gatherings

During the past few days and following a series of labor strikes, protests and sit-ins, a number of labor unions and associations made calls for gatherings to mark International Labor Day.

Tehran – Struggling Youth Union – West Tehran issue statement in support of PMOI/MEK call for Labor Day gatherings

We commemorate International Labor Day

Dear workers, fellow countrymen

This year more than ever before we commemorate International Labor Day with the utmost might. On a daily basis we are witness to rallies held by workers, bazaar merchants, teachers and other walks of life. People who have risen for their rights. Therefore, we rise in support of a call made by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MeK) to commemorate International Labor Day better than ever before.

Chit-chat with a miner in Kerman, central Iran

Hardworking miners in Iran

Reporter: The province of Kerman in central Iran has many mines, as if the treasures of the ancient gods are hidden in the heart of this province. Treasures that belong to all the people. For all those who go deep down and extract these riches to help the wheels of Iran’s begin rolling. The economy gets up and going, but none of these hardworking people receive any share of these riches. The result of their hard work is always plundered by the ruling mullahs. Their share is just the black faces miners are famous for. I knew Kerman had the first word in Iran’s mining industry because I was aware of the official numbers that 15,732 of the 84,922 miners in Iran are from Kerman Province. This is around 19%.

Iran: workers call for protests marking Int’l Labor Day

Workers in Iran

A group of deprived and oppressed workers of the Qom magnesium mine issued a statement commemorating International Labor Day and called on all workers to stage rallies on this day.

“Congratulations to all workers of our country on International Labor Day,” this statement reads in part.

Iran’s ‘Arj’ Company goes out of business

Just a few days before the International Workers Day, Arj, one of Iran’s oldest producers of home appliances had to seize production laying off its precedential workers.

Iran’s state News Agency, ILNA wrote on Monday April 18^th, “Arj that was an unforgettable part of Iranians’ nostalgia of from their childhood has now come to an end. The production line of Arj’s home appliances came to a stop and almost 200 workers were sacked.

International Labor Day in Iran, solidarity amongst all walks of life

International Labor Day

We are nearing May 1^st, marking International Labor Day, and each day there are new calls from laborers to stage marches and protests against the ruling mullahs’ cruelty and oppression. In solidarity with laborers across Iran, college students condemned the cruelty and oppression imposed on Iran’s laborers and called for solidarity from all walks of life. This includes students of South Tehran Free University who issued a statement in this regard: “We, a group of students of Tehran Free University, congratulate our country’s dear workers on International Labor Day and condemn the cruelty and oppression imposed against you under the mullahs’ regime. We call on all international organizations and anyone across the globe that are active in labor affairs to take action to improve the conditions of laborers.”

Iran: Over 5,000 retired Isfahan steel mill workers rally outside parliament

rally outside the Iranian regime’s parliament

According to reports received from Tehran, from 7 am on Sunday, April 17^th around, 4,000 retired Isfahan steel mill workers – some with their families – rallied outside the Iranian regime’s parliament. The number of protesters increased by the minute, reaching 5,000 by 10 am. Reports say the rally continued for two days up to now.

The protesters demanded their unpaid pensions and retirement benefits.

Iran – Group letter of southeast Tehran workers to World Labor Organization

Dear Secretary-General of the World Labor Organization

Today, there is an irony about us workers, we who are part of the lower class, living in poverty allocated by the Iranian regime itself that is against workers.

Our salary is below 10 million rials a month, while the poverty line is set at 30 million rials!!!

We are left ashamed before our wives and children

Despite all this, we are not sellers!

We will not sell our dignity and pride, and on Labor Day we will clench our fists and chant against the terrorist regime ruling Iran.

We hope the world conscience will awaken more than ever before, and lead to more isolation for those ruling Iran.

We only have one request:

Widespread condemnation of the anti-labor and terrorist regime in international organizations

 A group of workers living in poverty in southeast Tehran (Shadabad metal market)

Iran: May 1st, International Workers Day

A day to protest and celebrate in Iran

 In a joint statement on March 28^th, Workers in Bella Shoe factory and Melli Shoe factory in Tehran called on the Iranian workers to celebrate the upcoming International Workers Day and cry out their protest against the anti-workers policies of Mullahs government.

90 mines closed, 2,700 miners out of worker, Iran official says

The Statistics Center in Iran issued a report announcing 90 mines were closed from March 2014 to March 2015, leading to 2,700 minters losing their lives.

These numbers were gathered as 170 statistics agents went to around 6,400 mines across the country. The number of mines under work in the abovementioned period saw a decrease of 90 mines in comparison to a similar period the year before. The number of miners also decreased by 2,771.

Brawl between suppressive Guards and Arab street venders in Ahwaz

A brawl broke out when government forces decided to disperse Iranian Arab citizens who were trying to make their living by peddling in Abdohamid Bazar of Ahwaz, in Iran’s south west county of Khuzestan. Peddlers started fighting back when Security forces used batons against them. Some of the Arab peddlers were arrested,

Most of street venders in Iran are university graduates who cannot find jobs due to Iran’s devastated economy.