By JOHN ROSS
Source: NEWS.scotsman.com

LOCAL, national and international figures joined in tribute yesterday to the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Russell-Johnston of Minginish, who died last month.

The former MP and Scottish Liberal Party leader died after collapsing in a Paris street on 27 July, the eve of his 76th birthday.

NCRI - Some 1,500 part time teachers gathered outside mullahs' Majlis (parliament) from the western province of Lorestan protesting to contract conditions with the local branch of Ministry of Education.  

A vulnerable part of the country's work force with fixed incomes, the teachers have been protesting to unpaid salaries and contract conditions since last year.

NCRI - In the past week dozens of students at Teacher's Education School have been summoned to the school's disciplinary committee in Karaj, some 40 kilometer west of the capital.

NCRI - This morning, more than 200 protesting workers of Zarbaft Textile Factory of Kurdistan gathered outside social security office in the western city of Sanandaj. 

The participants demanded their unpaid salaries and benefits. The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – fearing the spread of demonstration to other parts of the city cordoned the protesting workers.

NCRI – Brig. Gen. Ali Larijani, mullahs' Majlis (parliament) speaker and former top nuclear negotiator with the West urged his old cronies in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to concentrate on the country's "problems" and try to find solutions to the staggering economy.

NCRI - Workers walked out on Saturday at Haft-Tapeh Sugar Cane factory in the southern city of Shoosh for the third time this Year.

The striking workers gathered outside the management office. They demanded that the officials honor their past agreement with the workers' representatives leading to the end of their strike the last time.

NCRI – On Saturday, judges have been assigned by the mullahs' to "advice" women violating the imposed dress codes in the streets of the central city of Yazd.
 
Such a suppressive move has caused much hatred for the clerical regime among the local residents. However, judges are backed up by the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police -- if the subjects do not comply.