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NCRI – Ms. Soheila Sadeq, Chair of the National Council of Resistance (NCR) Education Committee, commemorates the Teacher\u2019s Day and calls on all noble teachers to participate in protest gatherings and urges all students and the youth to rise up in solidarity with the teachers.<\/p>\n
Ms. Sadeq said, \u201cA life under the poverty-line for millions of teachers and abandoning them in face of escalating prices and inflation with no job security and making teachers work for very low wages under the cover of temporary contracts, is a shame for the regime of velayat-e faqih that has squandered hundreds of billions of dollars of Iranian people\u2019s assets in ominous nuclear projects, export of terrorism to and warmongering in the region, and in pervasive and growing suppression across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis regime\u2019s response to the least demands by the teachers to provide for their minimum livelihood is repression, arrests and imprisonment. Instead of paying heed to the difficulties of the wretched life of teachers and to provide for their livelihood and social status, this regime is constantly increasing the budget for its suppressive organs that is three times that of the budget for education.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2015, albeit the steep fall of oil revenues, the budget for suppressive organs jumped by 53%. This is while the budget for education only experienced a 12.8% increase that is even under the government\u2019s officially announced inflation rate. None of the promises by the deceptive President of the regime Mullah Rouhani to improve teachers\u2019 lives has materialized. At a time that as admitted by Mullah Rouhani the budget for the suppressive military and security organs has been paid up 100% (regime\u2019s media, April 25), the shortage of funds for governmental expenditures are channeled to ministries such as the Ministry of Education with millions of teachers.\u201d
As announced in the teachers\u2019 protests in 128 cities in 31 provinces in April, wage increase, health insurance, housing and other job benefits that according to regime\u2019s own employment laws apply, as well as the annulment of oppressive sentences against teachers and the release of their imprisoned colleagues and improvement in the educational environment, are at the top of teachers\u2019 list of rightful demands.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these circumstances where by each passing day lethal crises further tighten the noose around regime\u2019s neck and the regime finds itself at an impasse in the nuclear trap and its aggressive meddling in the region, especially in Yemen, it doubtless has no recourse as in the past, but to employ suppression and demagoguery to deceive the deprived population in face of popular discontent, rage and protests. In these circumstances, the sole avenue to attain the rights that have been taken away is solidarity and unity in action, as well as spreading the resistance against the religious tyranny ruling the country,\u201d Ms. Sadeq added.<\/p>\n
Chair of NCR Education Committee called for active participation in the protest gatherings on May 1 and May 8 and stressed that the nationwide teachers\u2019 uprising is the symbol and beacon for the resistance of the Iranian people against a reactionary and criminal regime and Iranian people\u2019s protest against oppression and plunder. This path heralds the overthrow of this antihuman regime and the establishment of freedom and democracy in Iran.<\/p>\n
National Council of Resistance of Iran – Education Committee
April 29, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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