NCRI- The security and intelligence forces of the Iranian regime prevented a gathering of more than 500 members of labor movement in Tehran's Chitgar and Jahan-Nama Parks yesterday. They included workers from Iran Khodro factory, drivers from Tehran's Vahed bus company, workers from Sanandaj, Varamin, Pakdasht, Qom industrial city and some of the factories in Tehran. The gathering was organized to honor May Day, the international Labor Day.
Agents of the State Security Forces (SSF) — mullahs' suppressive police — were stationed at the above locations and dispersed the crowd.
The only cars allowed to the park were the ones carrying families and the combination of women and children. There were a number vans waiting at the entrance to the park to take away possible detainees. Some 30 motorcyclists from the special unit of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) patrolled the park along with SSF foot patrols. In the streets leading to the park and at every junction, security forces were stationed to control the situation. This is despite the regime's deceitful claims that it is a defender of workers' rights.
The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of international labor movements and trade unions to the plight of Iranian workers and the regime's efforts to deprive them from their basic rights.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 26, 2008