{"id":241592,"date":"2021-06-16T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=241592"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:40:44","slug":"round-up-of-iran-protests-protests-increase-ahead-of-sham-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/round-up-of-iran-protests-protests-increase-ahead-of-sham-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-up of Iran Protests: Protests Increase Ahead of Sham Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-241594\" title=\"Iran-protests-NCRI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-protests-NCRI.jpg\" alt=\"Reports from Iran indicate protests by people from all walks of life continue across Iran, days before the regime\u2019s sham presidential election\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-protests-NCRI.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-protests-NCRI-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-protests-NCRI-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-protests-NCRI-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iran-protests-NCRI-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reports from Iran indicate protests by people from all walks of life continue across Iran, days before the regime\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/2021-iran-presidential-election-iran-regime-sham-election-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">sham presidential election<\/a>. These protests are due to Iran\u2019s dire economic situation and the regime\u2019s inaction.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Wednesday, June 16, 2021, workers of the Thran\u00a0Jonoob\u00a0Construction Company in\u00a0Mahshahr, southwest Iran, continued their strike and protested for the third consecutive day. They started their strike when the company fired many local workers.\u00a0 It is worth noting that more than 70% of this company\u2019s workers are not local and are relatives of the company officials.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Wednesday, workers of Haft\u00a0Tappeh\u00a0Sugar Cane Company in southwest Iran held a protest. They have held several protests and strikes in the last few months. These workers demand their water irrigation right to irrigate sugar cane fields. They also demand officials to clarify the company\u2019s situation following the dispossession of Omid\u00a0Assadbeigi, the corrupted CEO\u00a0Of\u00a0the Company and relative of the regime\u2019s officials.\u00a0Assadbeigi\u00a0became Haft\u00a0Tappeh\u2019s\u00a0CEO as a part of the regime\u2019s so-called \u201cprivatization plan.\u201d The regime had to remove him from this post following years of protests and strikes by the Haft\u00a0Tappeh\u00a0workers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Wednesday, workers of the Mashhad Mall project gathered in front of the office building of Ayandeh Bank in Mashhad, demanding their unpaid wages from the Exxon Petroleum Company and the company\u2019s failure to pay workers\u2019 salaries on time.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On June 16, the plundered investors of the Caspian Credit Institution held a protest demanding their life savings plundered by the institution. Caspian Credit Institution is linked to the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and has plundered people\u2019s life savings with the promise of returning people\u2019s money with higher interest. As a result, there have many protests by defrauded investors in recent years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Tuesday, several snap food deliverers in Laleh Park in Tehran held a protest. They demanded an increase in the cost of travel and delivering foods to closer locations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On June 15, Khuzestan telecommunications employees gathered in several cities in the province to protest the lack of job security. Despite more than 20 years of experience, the demonstrators said that the regime officials refuse to respect workers\u2019 legal rights.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Tuesday, families of\u00a0Bafgh\u00a0phosphate mine workers in Yazd province, central Iran, held a rally protesting the delayed wages of their husbands. One of the demonstrators said that the security guards at the mine regularly summon the workers and put them under pressure.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Monday, pipe workers in\u00a0Mahshahr, Khuzestan province, held a rally in front of the governor\u2019s office. One hundred eight workers of the\u00a0Mahshahr\u00a0pipeline have been laid off due to the alleged financial problems of the employer. Farmers in Khuzestan province also joined this rally. The local officials have prevented farmers from summer planting and refused to give farmers their right to water irrigation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Workers\u00a0Sepahan\u00a0Dizicheh\u00a0Cement Factory in Isfahan province continued their strike on Sunday. Workers demand special job bonuses and job security.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In addition to protests by people from all walks of life, many people <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-elections-debate-boycott-20210613\" rel=\"noopener\">call for boycotting<\/a> the regime\u2019s sham presidential election in the so-called \u201cFree Tribune\u201d the regime holds on the street.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThose officials who tell us say death to America have sent their children to the United States to study there. With whose many? These people\u2019s money. Why you keep lying to us, Hassan Rouhani gave many promises to people but plundered the national wealth in 8 years. [Ebrahim] Raisi [the supreme leader\u2019s preferred candidate] has been the judiciary chief for two years. What has he done? They are all the same,\u201d an Iranian woman tells a mullah in Tehran.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThis Ebrahim Raisi who speaks of Baluchi people\u2019s right, what did he do in his previous position. What [Abdolnasser] Hemmati did in the Central Bank. We would have the same situation for the next 42 years, as long as this regime is in power,\u201d said a young man from Sistan and\u00a0Baluchestan\u00a0province.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cParticipating in the elections is betraying the blood of 1500 victims of the November uprising and their grieving mothers who cannot stop to cry,\u201d said an Iranian man in Kerman, referring to the martyrs of the major Iran protests in November 2019.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ongoing protests in Iran and unprecedented calls for boycotting the regime\u2019s election farce in bright daylight indicate society\u2019s restiveness and people\u2019s willingness to overthrow the regime.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from Iran indicate protests by people from all walks of life continue across Iran, days before the regime&rsquo;s sham presidential election. 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