{"id":6789,"date":"2025-09-20T23:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:52:55","slug":"at-least-seven-protest-gatherings-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/labor-and-guilds\/at-least-seven-protest-gatherings-held","title":{"rendered":"At least seven protest gatherings held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"389\"><strong>20 September 2025<\/strong><br data-start=\"341\" data-end=\"344\" \/><strong>News group: Protests \u2013 Workers and Guilds \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"535\"><strong data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"419\">Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 At least seven protest gatherings were held by different groups of people in various cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"1084\">According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, <strong>applicants for the Ministry of Education\u2019s recruitment exam<\/strong> from various cities gathered in front of the Administrative and Recruitment Organisation building. They protested against unfulfilled promises, discrimination, and special privileges granted to certain groups, demanding the removal of the \u201cemployee coefficient\u201d from the exam results\u2014a factor which, they said, deprived many high-scoring candidates of employment in the education system.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1086\" data-end=\"1282\"><strong>A group of SAIPA car pre-purchasers<\/strong> gathered in front of the company\u2019s sales office in Karaj. Protesters objected to delays in the delivery of their cars and the authorities\u2019 failure to respond.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1284\" data-end=\"1629\"><strong>Medical and hospital equipment workers in Tabriz<\/strong> gathered in front of the city\u2019s University of Medical Sciences, protesting the non-payment of their claims. They declared that delayed payments from hospitals, coupled with rising exchange rates and the pressure of sanctions, had left them facing serious financial losses and economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1965\"><strong>Workers of the National Steel Group of Ahvaz<\/strong> staged a sit-in for the eighth consecutive day in front of the company\u2019s management building. Their demands included immediate payment of overdue wages, settlement of social insurance debts, provision of supplementary insurance, and transparency in contracts with the insurance provider.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1967\" data-end=\"2258\"><strong>Farmers from 15 villages in Poldasht<\/strong> gathered to protest being deprived of their water rights and the transfer of water from Karamabad Dam to Sho\u2019t County without consideration of their legal share. According to the farmers, this action has dried up their fields and destroyed their crops.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2260\" data-end=\"2347\"><strong>Workers of Ghadir Steel in Bahabad<\/strong> went on strike due to four months of unpaid wages.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2617\"><strong>A group of citizens in Delgan<\/strong> gathered to protest fuel shortages and unfair distribution. Protesters stated that only those with connections or special acquaintances could obtain subsidised fuel, while other drivers were forced to buy petrol at the free-market rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 September 2025News group: Protests &ndash; Workers and Guilds &ndash; Breathing in Confinement &ndash; At least seven protest gatherings were held by different groups of people in various cities across the country. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&rsquo; Rights League in Iran, applicants for the Ministry of Education&rsquo;s recruitment exam [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-and-guilds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1Lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","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=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}