Spring of freedom

Iran: Steelworkers’ protest in Ahvaz faces a blatant crackdown Steelworkers’ protest in the city of  Ahvaz  entered its 38th consecutive day On Monday, Dec. 17. On that day, the protest faced a new round of crackdown by the Iran regime’s security forces.  Mass arrests took place overnight . The raids targeted the homes of Iranian National Steel Industries Group (INSIG) workers. They were carried out in absence of warrants, as in cases of politically motivated arrests. Dozens of workers were arrested and many spent nights out of their homes to avoid arrest. Once again, in the early hours of Tuesday, security forces raided several homes and arrested 10 more. According to the observers, at least 41 individuals were arrested at their homes or in the streets for participating in the steelworkers’ protest, demanding their legitimate rights. The suppressive security forces transferred the arrested workers to Ahvaz’s Sheyban Prison. The General Assembly of the Ahvaz Stee...

Shrouded Steelworkers’ protest in Ahvaz, Iran Steelworkers of the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz Khuzestan, continue their protest for their overdue wages, various problems, mismanagement and corruption in directing this industrial complex. The Steelworkers also demand the return of the INSIG to government ownership. The factory was sold to the private sector under deceitful conditions. The private owners are affiliated to the corrupt ruler, Khamenei, and the Revolutionary Guards’ figures. The new round of strikes and protests of the steelworkers of Ahvaz entered its second month while many  steelworkers, wearing shrouds , staged a rally in front of the governorate of the regime in Ahvaz while the slogan “We resist, we die, but we do not bow to injustice,” was written on their white shrouds. The Steelworkers also were chanting: “Lest we surrender to injustice”;  “Neither threat nor prison, they have no effect anymore!” As the protesters mo...

By INU Staff INU- Protests are growing on a daily basis in Iran, from steelworkers demanding better living conditions to cheated investors calling for Regime-backed companies to return their money to teachers calling for a reform of the education system. There is simply no denying that this really does seem like the last days of the Regime. Many in Iran and outside are acknowledging that the Iranian Resistance group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) are heavily involved in the planning of these demonstrations. Some regime officials, like the head of the Iranian judicial authority Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, are even reporting that the Regime must do something to prevent the MEK from turning these individual protests into an uprising that will unseat the mullahs, but it's far too late for that. The MEK, which works underground inside Iran to provide resistance to the Iranian Regime, has been leading these protests across Iran for nearly a year; at...