{"id":212491,"date":"2020-01-24T18:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=212491"},"modified":"2023-01-21T23:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T22:21:41","slug":"protests-across-iran-by-different-social-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/protests-across-iran-by-different-social-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Across Iran by Different Social Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Strikes and protests continue in various Iranian cities. File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Employees the\u00a0Mahshahr\u00a0Petrochemical Complex in Bandar-e Khomeini, southwest Iran, went on strike on Tuesday to protest non-payment of wages and the inadequate responses to their demands.<\/p>\n

The United States\u00a0issued\u00a0sanctions<\/a>\u00a0against the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC), and its 39 sub-companies in June 2019, regarding its connection to the\u00a0Iranian regime\u2019s\u00a0terrorist Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).<\/p>\n

The U.S.<\/a>\u00a0Treasury<\/a>\u00a0noted that Iran\u2019s oil ministry awarded the economic and engineering arm of the IRGC, ten oil and petrochemical projects worth $22 billion, which is four times the IRGC\u2019s official budget. That’s how the regime funds its terrorism in plain sight.<\/p>\n

Further protests linked to the IRGC took place in Tehran on Tuesday, where a group of\u00a0people who invested in the IRGC\u2019s Caspian Credit Firm held a rally outside the company\u2019s administrative office to protest the plundering of their assets.<\/p>\n

Caspian is just one of the several credit institutions that declared a deficit in 2017, effectively wiping away billions of dollars\u2019 worth of investor money. The money had been deposited around three years earlier after the companies, linked with regime officials and with permits\u00a0from the regime\u2019s ministries, promised fast returns.<\/p>\n

Instead, the money was stolen. There was no doubt that the regime and its officials were involved, especially because Caspian was approved by Iran\u2019s Central Bank. The IRGC squandered the investments on warmongering abroad and domestic suppression.<\/p>\n

Since its collapse, customers have been regularly protesting in front of branches of the companies as well as government institutions and the Central Bank, sometimes garnering promises from officials, but never actually getting their money back.<\/p>\n

There was yet another\u00a0protest\u00a0<\/a>on Tuesday, this time in\u00a0Eslamabad\u00a0Gharb, western Iran. Railway workers were protesting not being paid for five months and the regime\u2019s efforts to halt their construction project in its entirety. They staged their gathering outside the office of the local representative of Supreme Leader\u202fAli Khamenei\u202fand the governor\u2019s building.<\/p>\n

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#IranProtests<\/a>: Protests, Strikes Reported in #Iranian<\/a> Cities https:\/\/t.co\/5Plgql5O06<\/a>#FreeIran2020<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) January 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n