Eleven Protest Gatherings Held
13-October-2025
Category: Labor and guilds، protesters، Retirees
12 October 2025
News group: Protests – Pensioners – Workers & Guilds –
Breathing in Confinement – At least eleven protest gatherings were held by various groups across the country.
Social Security pensioners in Shush, Haft-Tappeh and Karkheh rallied outside the Shush governor’s office, while Social Security pensioners in Tehran, Ahvaz, Rasht and Shushtar gathered outside their city’s Social Security offices. They protested low pensions, discrimination and inequality, harsh living conditions, poverty, inflation and rising prices, as well as the detention of protesting pensioners. Demonstrators demanded the removal of the Social Security Organisation from government control, amendment of Article 89 of the Social Security Law regarding access to medical services, and improvements to pensions and welfare benefits. Chants included: “Neither parliament nor government cares about the people,” “Imprisoned pensioners must be freed,” “Mohammad Kamarva must be freed,” “Our costs are in dollars; our wages are in rials,” and “Where is inflation control? You’re lying to the people.”
Steel and mining pensioners in Isfahan marched and rallied over the incomplete and improper implementation of pension equalisation, worsening living conditions and neglect of their demands. They called for removal of the salary cap, prevention of the Steel Pension Fund’s merger into the National Pension Fund, and solutions to problems with healthcare services. Chants included: “Steelworkers, raise your voice—shout for your rights,” and “Only on the streets do we win our rights.”
Nurses at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences gathered outside the university to protest ten months of unpaid wages, unfulfilled promises, and problems with tariffs and overtime pay.
Green-space workers in the South Pars Special Economic Zone (Asaluyeh) protested unpaid wages, unpaid bonuses and years-of-service benefits, pay discrimination versus permanent staff, and the lack of increases to commuting allowances.
On Kharg Island, staff of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company rallied over incomplete wage payments, pay injustice, inflation, and the outsourcing of the oil industry’s health services to the private sector. They demanded full implementation of operational-zone allowances, removal of the salary cap, full payment of years-of-service benefits, cancellation of pension deductions, and enforcement of Article 10 of the Law on the Duties and Powers of the Ministry of Oil.
In the South Pars township (Asaluyeh), parents marched to protest the lack of transparency in calculating fees at non-profit schools, the use of personal bank accounts to receive tuition, and overcrowded classes. They chanted: “Incompetent officials—resign, resign.”
In Yazd, applicants in the 256-unit National Housing project rallied outside the Road and Urban Development office to protest broken promises and delays in handing over the homes.
In Arak, applicants in the Babaei National Housing project gathered outside the Central Province Governor’s Office, protesting financial opacity and delays, and calling for the project’s acceleration.