{"id":338806,"date":"2025-11-02T19:41:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338806"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:41:34","slug":"iranian-retirees-oil-workers-stage-widespread-protests-against-regime-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iranian-retirees-oil-workers-stage-widespread-protests-against-regime-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Retirees, Oil Workers Stage Widespread Protests Against Regime Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_338807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338807\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Protest-by-retirees-in-Anzali-November-2-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Protest by retirees in Anzali (November 2, 2025)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Protest-by-retirees-in-Anzali-November-2-2025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Protest-by-retirees-in-Anzali-November-2-2025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Protest-by-retirees-in-Anzali-November-2-2025-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Protest-by-retirees-in-Anzali-November-2-2025-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Protest-by-retirees-in-Anzali-November-2-2025-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Protest-by-retirees-in-Anzali-November-2-2025-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest by retirees in Anzali (November 2, 2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A powerful wave of protests swept across Iran on November 1 and 2, 2025, as citizens from all walks of life\u2014from retired steelworkers and active oil industry personnel to rural villagers and defrauded homebuyers\u2014took to the streets in a coordinated display of defiance against the clerical regime\u2019s systemic corruption and economic ruin. The demonstrations, stretching from the industrial heartlands of Isfahan and Ahvaz to the capital Tehran and remote villages in Chabahar, expose the deepening illegitimacy of a state that has failed every segment of its population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sheer breadth of the protests underscores a nationwide crisis that the regime is neither intent nor capable of containing.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Betrayed Generation: Retirees Demand Dignity<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The generation that spent decades building the country\u2019s infrastructure is now fighting for survival. In cities across Iran, retirees staged mass rallies to protest the poverty, hyperinflation, and systemic theft that have defined their retirement. In Shush, they gathered to decry the plundering of their pension funds and the collapse of their living standards.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">November 2\u2014Ahvaz, southwest Iran<br \/>Retirees of the Social Security Organization marched demanding fair pensions and livelihood rights.<br \/>Protesters chant: \u201cEnough oppression, our table is empty,\u201d \u201cThe government betrays, parliament supports it.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m3a1LMwYrQ\">pic.twitter.com\/m3a1LMwYrQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1984930920072200498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Ahvaz, the chants from Social Security retirees were explicitly political, indicting the entire ruling structure: \u201cThe government betrays, the parliament supports it!\u201d Their message was clear: the nation\u2019s wealth has been squandered by a corrupt elite, leaving their dinner tables empty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This sentiment was echoed with even greater force in Isfahan, where retired steelworkers directly challenged the regime\u2019s core propaganda. Marching through the city, they chanted, \u201cOur enemy is right here; they lie saying it\u2019s America!\u201d Their demands included a halt to the forced transfer of their pension fund and action on their collapsing incomes and inadequate health insurance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">November 2\u2014Isfahan, central Iran<br \/>Retirees of the Steel Pension Fund protested the forced transfer of their fund, declining pensions, and collapsing insurance and healthcare services.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9TNkswyE3m\">pic.twitter.com\/9TNkswyE3m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1984951765091881371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their resolve was absolute: \u201cWe will not leave the streets until our rights are met.\u201d In Anzali, retirees protested the regime\u2019s attempt to replace state-funded healthcare with corrupt supplementary insurance schemes, asserting, \u201cFree medical services are our absolute right.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Engine of the Economy Grinds to a Halt: Workers Rise<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protests have struck the heart of the regime\u2019s economy: the oil and petrochemical sector. On November 1, a large crowd of contract oil workers gathered before the presidential office in Tehran. After years of empty promises to improve their job security and wages, their message had shifted from petition to ultimatum. As one report noted, they had come not for a request, but for a reckoning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This defiance was mirrored in the southern port of Mahshahr on November 2, where petrochemical workers exposed the farcical nature of the regime\u2019s justice system. They gathered outside the local Labor Department to protest its failure to issue a final verdict on their months of unpaid wages, despite the company not even contesting their claim. \u201cHow long must we wait?\u201d they asked. \u201cOur lives are being destroyed in this uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">November 2\u2014Arak, central Iran<br \/>Third-party contract oil workers from Markazi Province joined the protests in Tehran despite heavy workloads and lack of shift leave, rallying to defend their rights and fair conditions.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BubxIcraYT\">pic.twitter.com\/BubxIcraYT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1984931356984344870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The growing solidarity among workers was on full display as oil industry contract workers from Markazi Province made their way to Tehran to join the main rally, demonstrating a powerful sense of national coordination and shared purpose.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A War on the People: State-Sanctioned Plunder and Violence<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime\u2019s predatory nature was laid bare in its treatment of the country\u2019s most vulnerable. In the village of Komb in Chabahar, over 300 military and state forces conducted a pre-dawn raid on November 2, using dozens of vehicles to demolish the homes of impoverished residents while they slept. A man who resisted the destruction was beaten and arrested, his fate unknown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The raid is part of a so-called \u201cdevelopment\u201d plan for the Makran coast, which locals call a land grab. One woman, a single mother of six whose home was completely destroyed, cried, \u201cI couldn\u2019t even get the Quran out, it\u2019s left under the rubble.\u201d Another resident stated the obvious: \u201cIf this was legal, they would have done it during the day, not while people were asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">November 2\u2014Chabahar, southeast Iran<br \/>Aftermath of a raid by IRGC and the state-run Bonyad-e Maskan housing company on Komb village, destroying homes and leaving women and children without shelter.<br \/>The raid took place in the middle of the night and the security forces brutally beat\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gUcPz017C\">pic.twitter.com\/8gUcPz017C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1984953631561376144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This violence is not limited to physical destruction. In Khoy, villagers protested a solar farm project imposed without consultation, which seizes their primary access route to their own farmlands. In Tehran, citizens who purchased homes in the \u201cFlora\u201d residential project\u2014a joint venture involving the army\u2014protested years of delays and broken promises, showing how regime-affiliated entities defraud the public with impunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The events of early November 2025 are not a collection of disparate protests over isolated grievances. They represent a unified national uprising. The retired steelworker in Isfahan, the oil worker in Tehran, the dispossessed villager in Chabahar, and the defrauded homebuyer in the capital are all victims of the same corrupt, illegitimate regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their chants and their unwavering presence in the streets prove they have correctly identified the source of their misery. The people of Iran are demonstrating with remarkable courage and clarity that their patience has run out. With every passing day, it becomes clear that only regime change will solve the fundamental problems plaguing Iran\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful wave of protests swept across Iran on November 1 and 2, 2025, as citizens from all walks of life&mdash;from retired steelworkers and active oil industry personnel to rural [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":338807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130],"class_list":{"0":"post-338806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-protests","8":"tag-iran-protests"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iranian Retirees, Oil Workers Stage Widespread Protests Against Regime Policies - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A powerful wave of protests swept across Iran on November 1 and 2, 2025, as citizens from all walks of life\u2014from retired steelworkers and active oil\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iranian-retirees-oil-workers-stage-widespread-protests-against-regime-policies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iranian Retirees, Oil Workers Stage Widespread Protests Against Regime Policies - 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