Maryam Rajavi described the strikers as the voice of millions of laborers plundered by the regime, called on the general public to support them, and called for the immediate release of the arrested drivers.
The nationwide strike by truck drivers and operators of heavy vehicles entered its eleventh day today, Sunday, June 1, 2025, having spread across the entire country—155 cities in all 31 provinces. With the participation of taxi drivers in cities such as Sabzevar and Arak, the broader Iranian transportation community has joined in a united front of resistance, protest, and solidarity.
Today as well, images and field reports from freight terminals, border roads, and main routes of the country—including the Arak to Tehran road, Bandar Imam, Khorramabad, Golpayegan, Tamarchin, Bashmaq, Sarakhs, Charmahin, Zahedan, Mashhad, Sabzevar, and Isfahan—indicate that truck activity has nearly come to a standstill, with parking lots filled with striking vehicles. Meanwhile, the Tehran freight terminal remains empty of trucks.
Truck drivers, emphasizing that the arrest of their colleagues, including nine individuals in Bijar, has only strengthened their unity, demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all detained colleagues.
The Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, in a statement, declared its support for the truck drivers’ strike and condemned their arrests and threats.
At the same time, security pressures on truck drivers persist. On Thursday, at the freight terminals in Mobarakeh and Shahpur in Isfahan, it was announced that any driver refusing to load cargo would have “all their documents invalidated, services cut off, and a judicial case opened directly against them.”
On May 30, 2025, Reza Nouri, the Friday prayer leader of Bojnourd, stated: “There is talk of the truck drivers, talk of the bakeries… our enemies are trying to turn a small dispute into a riot.” (Atrak TV Network, May 30, 2025)
Reza Rostami, head of the Transportation Commission of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, in a false promise said: “The main concern of the truck drivers was related to social security insurance; this issue was reviewed in the Parliament’s Urban Development Commission with the presence of a representative from the Social Security Organization and is supposed to be re-evaluated within a week.”
Abbas Soufi, a member of the regime’s Parliament Urban Development Commission, also reported the drafting of a double-urgency plan to address the drivers’ demands, admitting that “freight tariffs haven’t been updated for years” and that “current insurance premiums are unaffordable.” (TIN News, May 31, 2025)
Yesterday, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said at the “Free Iran – Toward a Democratic Republic” conference: “Just during the term of [Masoud] Pezeshkian, 1,275 people were executed, and in (the month of) Ordibehesht alone, 170 executions took place. Yet despite all the arrests and crackdowns, Iranian cities are scenes of daily protests and strikes—from teachers to bakers, truck drivers, and retirees. For the past ten days, hardworking truck drivers have gone on strike. Their outcry against injustice is loud. They are the voice of millions of laborers who this regime has plundered.”
She called on the general public to support the nationwide truck drivers’ strike and said the arrested drivers must be released. The day is not far when the smoldering anger of the Iranian people ignites into a well-organized uprising, led by resistance units, and turns the dynasty of this oppressive regime into ashes.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
1 June 2025