Youth Chant ‘Honorable Azerbaijan, Dishonorable Pahlavi’ in Urmia and Tabriz Stadiums
As protests by various segments of the populace against the mullahs’ repressive and plundering policies expand, workers in Shush and Abhar, nurses in Gorgan, and students in Tehran have staged demonstrations. Public anger and hatred towards the architects of poverty, misery, and both the Shah’s and the mullahs’ dictatorships are reflected in the slogans chanted by youth and outraged citizens across the country.
On Thursday, December 18, courageous Azerbaijani youth chanted ‘Azerbaijan has honor, Pahlavi is dishonorable’ during a football match at Sahand Stadium in Tabriz. A day earlier, on Wednesday, December 17, rebellious youth in Urmia chanted the same slogan during a volleyball match.
On Thursday, December 18, workers from the Mianab Agro-Industry company in Shush rallied against management’s anti-labor policies and the appointment of government agents. In Abhar, hundreds of workers from Siyadan Steel also protested months of unpaid wages and the lack of safety measures.
Nurses from Golestan University of Medical Sciences in Gorgan, students from a university dormitory in Tehran, and addiction therapists held separate gatherings to protest unbearable working conditions, the commercialization of education, and medicine shortages.
On Tuesday, December 16, alongside a gathering of prisoners’ families for the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign, students at the Tehran University dormitory rallied against the ‘commercialization of education’ and the transformation of the university into a ‘profit-making enterprise.’ Concurrently, a group of addiction therapists protested medical shortages in front of the regime’s Ministry of Health, chanting, ‘Our patients’ medicine must be supplied.’
Over Sunday and Monday, nurses in Gorgan and Minudasht, medical staff in Ahvaz, and retirees in Tehran and several other provinces held nationwide gatherings to protest their dire living conditions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
19 December 2025