Workers at Zaabal factory in Shooshtar and Amir-Kabir factory of Dasht-e Azadegan went on strike

NCRI - Workers at Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane factory in Shoosh, southern Iran, continued their strike on the fifth day running today. On April 12, the striking workers staged protest outside the office of the factory manager, Yaqoub Shafiee, demanding payment of their unpaid salaries.

Maryam Rajavi: Purging two key cabinet members is an indication of the Iranian regime's faltering state which will be followed by more elimination 

NCRI - Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described purging of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's two key cabinet members as an indication of escalating trend in the mullahs' regime faltering state following last month's sham elections.

Maryam Rajavi called for public's support to the striking workers 
NCRI - 5,000 workers walked out in protest at the Sugar Cane Factory in the southern city of Shoosh on Tuesday, April 9. The workers went on strike when their agreement with the management over the pay disputes last February was not honored immediately. All employees participated in the recent protest including workers in production and cane-cutting sections.

Workers in this factory went on strike over their unpaid salaries in October of 2007 and then again in February and March.

NCRI - Brig. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi-Moqadam chief of the State Security Force (SSF) -- the suppressive police – announced new "plans" in the year ahead, the state television reported on Monday.

He stressed on the need for more undercover police tactics to control the public and said, "It is not possible in a society that has the habit of 'seeing is believing' to change that attitude over night. It takes time to move from a completely open police presence to undercover policing. We will do it step by step. However, we move in the direction of more undercover surveillance... We have to first develop the frame work for under cover policing such as surveillance cameras, GPS's, and other techniques."

Mrs. Rajavi: The clerical regime expedites move towards the nuclear bomb, comprehensive sanctions are imperative and should be implemented immediately

NCRI- Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described today's remarks by Ahmadinejad on "starting to install 6,000 centrifuges" in Natanz as a clear indication of the clerical regime's accelerating drive to obtain the nuclear bomb. She urged the UN Security Council to adopt a firm policy and to impose comprehensive and immediate sanctions against the regime.

NCRI- Last February, Shiraz University campus was the scene of ten days of courageous protests by the student activists in the southern city of Shiraz.

The mullahs' hand picked school management jumped at an opportunity in the Nowruoz (Iranian New Year holidays) to install hundreds of surveillance cameras on the campus to monitor the students every move.

NCRI - On Saturday, more than 400 laid off workers of Iran-Sadra Shipyard in the southern city of Bushehr ended the 8th day of their ongoing sit-in. The workers are protesting against sudden dismissal from their jobs by the factory's management last month. They have held a sit-in outside the shipyard's administration building.

The protesting workers blocked the main entrance to the facility, other workers did not turn out and many parts of the shipyard are closed down.