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On Tuesday, April 19, a protest gathering by thousands of retirees of the steel industry continued for the third consecutive day in front of the regime\u2019s parliament. The retirees who mostly have brought along their families coming from Isfahan to Tehran are protesting their unpaid wages and dividends in the past four months. The protestors chanted \u201cJustice, justice, we shall not give in to abjection\u201d and carried handwritten placards that read \u201cWhatever they promised to us was thin air; whatever they told us was deception and duplicity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The suppressive forces tore up protesters\u2019 banners and placards and raised terror and fear in them in an attempt to prevent the expansion of this protest and to stop other people from joining them.<\/p>\n
Retirees of the steel industry had previously assembled in front of Isfahan\u2019s Governor Building on March 5 demanding their trampled rights. There they chanted \u201cleave Syria and think about our situation,\u201d showing their loath for the regime\u2019s policy of export of terrorism and fundamentalism and the wasting of the wealth of the deprived people of Iran for the purpose of war-fomenting interference in Syria.<\/p>\n
Similarly, on December 6-7, the retired steel workers of Isfahan, along with their colleagues in Karaj and Tehran, assembled in front of the office of Rouhani, the mullahs\u2019 President, as well as regime\u2019s Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n
The Pensioners Fund\u2019s halt to the workers\u2019 health coverage is yet another problem of laborers. This is while they have paid health insurance premiums for 30 years and now in their old age are in need of health insurance more than ever.<\/p>\n
Mohammadreza Ebrahimpour, a parliamentarian of the regime, acknowledged: \u201cThe steel retirees who have now assembled in front of the parliament for two or three days are around 100,000 retired workers who have not received their wages for months.\u201d (Farhang Radio \u2013 April 18, 2016)<\/p>\n
For years, under the pretense of insurance premium payments, the Iranian regime has deducted enormous amounts from the retirees\u2019 fund with over 1.2 million members. However, due to the pillage of the funds, the regime\u2019s officials are now talking about a three thousand billion toman shortage of budget. To make up for this shortage, they are imposing pressure on and getting the money out of the pockets of the retired workers who are living very difficult lives.<\/p>\n
Labor Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 20, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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