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Condemnation of Iran Regime’s Special Guard Attacks on Workers

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NCRI Staff

NCRI – On Thursday, 21 September 2017, the Iranian Free Union of Workers in a statement condemned the savage attack and raid of the Iranian regime’s Special Security Forces on the gatherings of the workers of Azarab and Hepco factories.

Part of the statement reiterates: “As much as the rightful cry of the workers of Azarab and Hepco is the rightful cry of all of workers in the city of Arak and all over the country, the repression and brutal assault on them is assault and attack on all of us, the workers in Arak city and all other cities across the country.”

“The massive and widespread dispatch of special forces with a variety of modern-day repressive equipment to crackdown nearly three thousand workers in these two factories has taken place when the workers have been struggling with extreme poverty and extreme hunger for months, and on the eve of a new academic year, they are not able to provide the minimum facilities for sending their children to school.”

“The lineup of hundreds of Special Security Forces armed to the teeth against the workers of Azarab and Hepco factories is a clear and final declaration of war against the working class of Iran by those who, with the gesture of harboring the poor and the oppressed and kissing the workers’ hands took power after the 1979 revolution, and today, after nearly forty years of that historical period, use tear gas and batons to beat the hungry workers who demand nothing but to receive their many months unpaid salaries.”

The Workers Syndicate of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, the Free Trade Union of Iran Workers, and the Follow up Committee for the Establishment of Workers’ Associations of Iran also issued a statement condemning the attack by Iran regime’s Special Forces against the peaceful protest rally of the workers of Azarab and Hepco companies of Arak.

In their statements, these organizations have called on all independent labor organizations, civil society organizations, students and teachers to condemn such violent encounters with the workers, and invite the society to unite against the repressors, bullions and renters.”