{"id":338037,"date":"2025-10-09T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338037"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:33:56","slug":"iran-nationwide-protests-from-october-6-8-2025-workers-retirees-and-families-of-political-prisoners-rise-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-protest\/iran-nationwide-protests-from-october-6-8-2025-workers-retirees-and-families-of-political-prisoners-rise-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Nationwide Protests from October 6\u20138, 2025 \u2014 Workers, Retirees, and Families of Political Prisoners Rise Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218888 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NCRI-50.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"69\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Between Monday, October 6, and Wednesday, October 8, 2025, numerous cities across Iran witnessed widespread protests by workers, retirees, students, farmers, drivers, and justice-seeking families. These demonstrations reflected the growing outrage of the Iranian people against the mullahs\u2019 regime\u2019s oppression and plunder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, October 8, during the global campaign week \u00a0against the death penalty, the families of political prisoners and grieving mothers held protest acts in Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Rafsanjan, Sanandaj, Bushehr, Yazd, Shahr-e Qods, Saqqez, Ilam, Robat Karim, Fariman, Gonbad-e Kavus, Mashhad, Garmsar, Babol, Sabzevar, Shiraz, Zahedan, Kangavar, Sonqor, Yasuj, and Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh. They organized protest gatherings, posted posters, wrote slogans on walls, and issued statements demanding the abolition of death sentences and the release of political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the same day in Tabriz, the workers of the Motogen Company entered the second day of their strike. In Mashhad, bakers protested injustice in subsidy distribution and payments with the slogan \u201cEnough bread theft!\u201d They said they had been hearing empty promises for three months. In Abhar, the workers of Siaden Steel gathered in front of the governor\u2019s office to protest several months of unpaid wages. In Andimeshk, municipal day laborers also held protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, October 7, students at Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran gathered to protest the repressive policies imposed on universities. In Shiraz, Qeshm, and Ahvaz, retirees and employees of the oil industry protested in front of oil company offices. In Andimeshk, municipal workers demonstrated again, while other gatherings of workers, teachers, and defrauded investors were also reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, October 6, a wave of protests by telecommunications retirees took place in Tehran and at least nine other cities, including Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Marivan, Hamedan, Zanjan, Khuzestan, and Gilan. The protesters demanded an end to the looting of retirees\u2019 assets by institutions affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards and the Execution of Imam Khomeini\u2019s Order Headquarters. Simultaneously, official oil workers in southern regions\u2014including Asaluyeh, South Pars, and Ahvaz\u2014protested unequal pay conditions, systemic corruption, and lack of job security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Tehran, applicants for the Education Ministry\u2019s employment exam once again gathered in front of the Majlis and the Ministry of Education, protesting unfair quota allocations. Meanwhile, applicants for the National Housing Plan in Kermanshah and Shahr-e Kord gathered in protest against unfulfilled promises, chanting, \u201cSeven years of promises, not a single house delivered!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Hamedan, people gathered in front of the university to condemn the presence of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) students, chanting, \u201cShameless, shameless!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Secretariat of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran-ncri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>9 October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Some images<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338038 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-2.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-2-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338039 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-3.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-3-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-3-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338040 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-4.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-4-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-4-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338041 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-5.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-5-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-5-150x87.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338042 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-6.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-6-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-6-150x81.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338043 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-7.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-7-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-7-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338044 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Protests-1-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Monday, October 6, and Wednesday, October 8, 2025, numerous cities across Iran witnessed widespread protests by workers, retirees, students, farmers, drivers, and justice-seeking families. 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