Mullahs' regime falls before its opposition, releases workers arrested in protests

The
Haft-Tapeh workers have been on strike and protesting for more than two weeks
for their unpaid wages and other grievances. Worse still, security forces
arrested workers who protested against it, among them some labor leaders.
Later, they released most of the detainees due to continuous pressures by angry
workers and citizens, but the labor leaders are still being held.
A
group of students at Tehran University held a protest to show support for the
workers of Haft-Tapeh sugar cane factory in Shush, southwestern Iran.
The
situation became tense when anti-riot police with guns entered the factory
compound.
Protests
continued in the city and in front of the courthouse by people and workers
demanding the release of the detainees and the fulfilling of the rest of the
demands.
Labor activists also complain that the
government has failed to effectively deal with corruption, especially when
powerful businessmen buy government enterprises with favorable prices but not
make the necessary investments or pay wages regularly.
Maryam
Rajavi, head of the Iranian Resistance, saluted the striking workers of the
Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane factory and Ahvaz Steel Factory, and called on all
youth, especially in Khuzestan, to support the uprising of strikers, and urged
international human rights defenders and labor and trade unions to condemn the
repressive measures of the religious fascism ruling Iran against the workers
and to take urgent action for the immediate release of the arrested.
Iranian
affairs expert Mohamed Benaya told The Reference in an interview that the current
demonstrations are the result of the repressive policies that the Iranian regime
practices against all classes.
He
also pointed out that not only did the Iranian regime ignore the rightful
demands of workers, it also launched arrest campaigns against protesters.
Benaya
stressed that the Iranian regime is in a real crisis thanks to these protests,
especially with the support of students and the piling rage, not to mention
that the regime senses that its religious prestige began to tumble.
“This rage will not settle unless the regime fulfills
the rightful demands of Iranian workers to lift their suffering, especially
with the deteriorating economy due to the regime’s failure to contain the
following crises.
Workers argue that the owner, who received the factory
from the state for a small fee a few years ago, has disappeared and the factory
has been left to its fate.