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The Education Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Congratulates All Education Staff on the International Teacher’s Day

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 While congratulating the noble teachers and education staff of Iran on the occasion of the International Teacher’s Day, the Education Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran praises the teachers’ struggle and emphasizes its decisive role in the popular struggle of the Iranian people to overthrow the anti-human clerical regime and establish democracy and freedom in Iran.

In the past year, like as the entire era of domination of the ruling dictatorship of the country, the county’s education staff have received nothing but increased repression and suppression, living in poverty, enduring all kinds of economic and social pressures, humiliation and insult. In the situation that the billion-dollar embezzlement of the regime’s officials is one of the constant issues of the power struggle among the internal gangs of the regime, Iranian noble teachers with a salary of one million Tomans, one-fourth of the poverty line according to the regime, are suffering great pain for providing livelihoods for themselves and their families. This has forces them to resort to second and third jobs, which has a profound effect on decreasing the quality of education in the country. This is while, billions of dollars of Iranian people’s money are being spent on military and suppressive organs, exporting terrorism, fundamentalism and missile projects of the regime.

The failure to pay the arrears and demands of the education staff since 2009 and the plundering of their pension fund, the lack of increase of teachers’ salaries in line with the increase in inflation in the society, the trampling and neglect of teachers’ rights despite more than 10 years of work experience etc. has had a direct impact on the livelihoods of this noble and well-informed people.

But on the other hand, during the past year, Iranian teachers and education staff stood against repression and plunder of the regime in education system by holding close to 200 small and big protests movements.

n teacher’s day, we commemorate the name and memory of teachers slain throughout the 38 year rule of ignorance, superstition and despotism,and those who suffered years of imprisonment in the medieval prisons of the regime for standing for freedom and defending the rights of teachers.

The Education Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iranian calls on all teachers and education staffs to escalate their resistance against the repressive policies of the regime and against the trampling of their rights and insist on the right to have independent trade unions and to pursue their legitimate demands. Also urges all the pupils, students and the youths to support the teachers’ struggles and demands.

The Education Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran also calls on all defenders of human rights and the teachers’ unions in different countries around the world to condemn the suppression of Iranian teachers and to take an effective measure for the release of imprisoned teachers, and asks the students and the education staffs around the world to support Iranian teachers.

National Council of Resistance of Iran – Education Committee
October 4, 2017