1 June 2025
\nNews outlet: Protests \u2013 Pensioners \u2013 Workers and Trades<\/p>\n
Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday, 1 June 2025: The nationwide truck drivers\u2019 strike has entered its 11th consecutive day, spreading to 155 cities despite arrests, security pressure, and state media efforts claiming the strike had ended. Reports from freight terminals indicate that trucks remain parked, with no loading taking place.<\/p>\n The truck drivers\u2019 strike began in protest against the skyrocketing prices of spare parts, rising insurance costs, unfair fuel rationing, and unjust freight rates \u2014 and continues to persist.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the same day, at least 12 other protest gatherings and marches were held in different parts of the country:<\/p>\n \u2022 Social security pensioners in Shush, Karkheh, Haft-Tappeh, Ahvaz, Tehran, and Rasht gathered to protest inadequate pensions, discrimination, inflation, and dire living conditions. They demanded higher payments, welfare benefits, and free healthcare. In solidarity with the truck drivers, they chanted slogans such as: \u2022 Retired steelworkers in Isfahan and Kerman also held protests demanding proper implementation of pension equalisation and access to retirement support services. Their slogan was: \u2022 Third-party workers at Gachsaran Oil and Gas Company protested outside the company\u2019s headquarters and the Nargesi guesthouse. They denounced broken promises, the role of subcontractors, job discrimination, and the authorities\u2019 failure to address their demands, including permanent employment status and the implementation of job classification plans. Their slogan: \u2022 Boat owners in the ports of Genaveh, Deylam, and Bandar Lavar protested outside the Bushehr Ports and Maritime Authority and Customs Office against the removal of traditional exemptions, the imposition of a 5% VAT, and the cut-off of subsidised fuel quotas.<\/p>\n \u2022 Candidates of the national medical residency exam in Tehran held a protest due to a lack of transparency in the results and widespread irregularities.<\/p>\n \u2022 CNG station workers of Tabriz municipality went on strike over unpaid wages.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rural telecommunications contractors in Saqqez protested the non-payment of their May salaries.<\/p>\n \u2022 Workers at Khavar Spinning Company in Gilan protested outside their workplace over unpaid wages for April and May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 June 2025 News outlet: Protests – Pensioners – Workers and Trades Breathing in Confinement – Sunday, 1 June 2025: The nationwide truck drivers’ strike has entered its 11th consecutive day, spreading to 155 cities despite arrests, security pressure, and state media efforts claiming the strike had ended. Reports from freight terminals indicate that trucks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,3,1013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-and-guilds","category-prisoner","category-protesters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1B6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cImprisoned truck drivers must be freed,\u201d
\n\u201cThe government betrays, the parliament supports,\u201d
\n\u201cNeither parliament nor government cares for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cJust with one less embezzlement, and our problems are solved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cStop fruitless promises! Act!\u201d<\/p>\n