{"id":6809,"date":"2025-09-22T04:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:49:01","slug":"at-least-eleven-protest-gatherings-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/labor-and-guilds\/at-least-eleven-protest-gatherings-held","title":{"rendered":"At Least Eleven Protest Gatherings Held"},"content":{"rendered":"

21 September 2025<\/strong>
News group: Protests \u2013 Pensioners \u2013 Workers and Guilds \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 On this day, at least eleven protest gatherings were held by different groups of people in various cities across the country.<\/p>\n

According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, Social Security pensioners<\/strong> in Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Tehran, Shush, and Rasht staged demonstrations and marches in protest at low pensions, discrimination and inequality, harsh living conditions, poverty, inflation, and rising costs. They demanded the removal of the Social Security Organisation from government monopoly, reform of Article 89 of the Social Security Law regarding medical services, an increase in pensions, and improvements in welfare services. Protesters chanted slogans such as \u201cEnough with war-mongering, our tables are empty,\u201d \u201cInflation, high prices; no to war and destruction,\u201d \u201cOur enemy is right here, they lie it\u2019s America,\u201d \u201cUnity, unity against poverty and corruption,\u201d \u201cImprisoned workers, imprisoned teachers must be freed,\u201d \u201cWe won\u2019t rest until we win our rights,\u201d \u201cThe monster of inflation has gripped the people,\u201d \u201c’Enriching life’ is our absolute right,\u201d \u201cWith the snapback mechanism, our tables grow emptier,\u201d \u201cSo-called champions of justice, shame on you,\u201d and \u201cEnough oppression, our tables are empty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steel and mining pensioners<\/strong> in Isfahan and Ahvaz also held demonstrations and marches, protesting the government\u2019s failure to fully implement pension equalisation schemes, worsening living conditions, injustices against retirees, and delays in the payment of their entitlements. Slogans at these gatherings included \u201cOfficials, have some shame, leave the country alone\u201d and \u201cSteelworkers, shout aloud, demand your rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers of the Offshore Oil Company<\/strong> in Aghajari, Khark, and other oil-rich southern regions also staged protests over unpaid wages and unequal pay. They demanded the full implementation of operational zone bonuses, the removal of the salary cap, full payment of severance pay, cancellation of pension deductions, prevention of the merger of their pension fund with others, repayment of illegally deducted taxes, and full implementation of Article 10 of the Law on the Duties and Powers of the Ministry of Oil. Workers in Aghajari displayed their protest symbolically by spreading out empty tablecloths.<\/p>\n

In Kashan, housing applicants<\/strong> protested the non-delivery of residential units despite payments made more than 40 years ago and the authorities\u2019 failure to fulfil their promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

21 September 2025News group: Protests – Pensioners – Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement – On this day, at least eleven 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’ Rights League in Iran, Social Security pensioners […]<\/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":[67,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-and-guilds","category-retirees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1LP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","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=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}