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\nBy\u00a0Mohammad Sadat Khansari<\/p>\n
Swindled investors of the Caspian credit firm, affiliated to the Iranian regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), held a rally on Tuesday, May 21, outside the office of the mullahs\u2019 President Hassan Rouhani demanding their stolen savings be returned.<\/p>\n
The protesters chanted:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is our money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough with promises; we have nothing to eat!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe trusted you with our money; you betrayed us!\u201d<\/p>\n
Also on Tuesday, retired teachers and educators rallied in front of the regime\u2019s Ministry of Education in Tehran demanding their delayed pensions.<\/p>\n
Protesters gathered at the site of the rally at 10 am demanding answers from officials. They held a large sign reading: \u201cThe result of 30 years of hard work should be provided for all at once. We will no longer tolerate any more delays.\u201d<\/p>\n
The protesters chanted:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in solidarity, tired of just promises.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPensions of teachers and educators must be provided for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not rest until our pensions are paid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur wages are in rials, our expenses are in dollars,\u201d referring to skyrocketing daily costs in Iran as the regime destroys the economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne less case of embezzlement will resolve our pension demands,\u201d referring to numerous cases of state theft and embezzlement mushrooming under the regime ruling Iran.<\/p>\n
The term “deposit losers” (swindled investors) in Iran is a new socioeconomic expression. This term is said to refer to people whose financial deposits have been deposited by governmental financial institutions or other approved organizations for buying a home or a vehicle, etc. but have not been returned to them and even illegally blocked. Hence, these people are called deposit losers. But the concept recently used by these people themselves is \u201clooted\u201d, which is a more precise expression of this phrase. These financial and credit institutions are affiliated with the IRGC and other military and civilian organizations of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n
The U.S. State Department recently designated the IRGC as a \u201cForeign Terrorist Organization\u201d (FTO).<\/p>\n
Currently, the \u201clooted\u201d movement in Iran has become a mass movement in cities such as Tehran, Rasht, Mashhad, and others that are taking place in the form of protests, sit-ins and marches against economic corruption in Iran’s banking system or government institutions and banks.<\/p>\n
This movement, which was initially just a guild movement, began to develop itself as a political movement right after the expansion of protests and the lack of accountability of regime officials to the people whose property was plundered, and with slogans against Rouhani’s government, became more radicalized.<\/p>\n
A version of this report<\/a> first appeared on the website of the main democratic Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or Mujahedin e Khalq, MEK<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Mohammad Sadat Khansari Swindled investors of the Caspian credit firm, affiliated to the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), held a rally on Tuesday, May 21, outside the office of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":53173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-26239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-protests","8":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"\n