With more than a month having passed since the start of the Iranian uprising, protests against the Iranian government have continued and have recently taken on various forms. In response to invitations issued in this regard, truck drivers have announced they will be joining a strike on Friday, October 21.
The demonstrations started a month ago in opposition to the murder of Muhsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, who had been detained by the “Ethics” police.
On their end, the instructors said that they would go on strike and sit in on that same month’s 23rd.
Calls for a strike are being made as strikes in Iranian cities affect the petrochemical, sugar, steel, and pipe industries.
The union representing truck drivers in Iran has declared that on October 21 all transportation-related activity will cease in solidarity of the Iranian people.
An invitation to strike was also issued by the Coordination Council for Iranian Teachers Syndicate in opposition to “the slaughter and detention of Iranian students.”
On Sunday and Monday, the council published a notice about the sit-in, saying, “We teachers will go to schools in these two days, but we will refrain from attending the classrooms.
The Coordination Council for Teachers Syndicates also declared Thursday, Friday, and Saturday as national days of mourning in memory of the protest victims, particularly the students and young adults who lost their lives.
The Aslawiya refinery, on the other hand, is reportedly still in a strike despite the pressure being applied on some of its employees.
According to the previously stated invitation, the sugar cane employees of the “Heat Tabah” enterprise were still at work as of Tuesday.
Additionally, sources point to the contract employees’ ongoing strike at the refineries and petrochemical plants at Kenghan, Bandar Abbas, Bushr, and Abadan.
Since October 11, workers in the oil industry have been on strike.
Along with petrochemicals, “Full Ghadeer” fragments in Persia and the pipe industries in the pension sector were also hit (Mahasheh).
On Tuesday, October 18, the Organizing Council of Contracting Workers announced a strike of the private sector tankers and the Abadan refineries sector in front of the 18th gate to the city refinery (5 Quds neighborhood).
These tankers blocked the entrance by parking their vehicles in front of the 18th portal portal instead of loading “Euro 4” gasoline for the fuel stations in the nation’s largest cities.
Also on Wednesday, Saeed Mayani bin Ahmed- the heir to Iran National (Iran Khodro), Mubairan, Jamco, and the Corush stores series- called on workers in the series of these companies to a general strike in support of the popular uprising in Iran.
In the context, Reda Pahlavi stated that the former Crown Prince of Iran, stressing that what is happening in Iran “will change the world,” that the Iranian uprising has resulted in many changes in foreign countries’ positions on the Iranian revolution. The most crucial issue for Iran at the moment is “supporting local movements and cooperation between abroad and inside.”
Iran’s uprising: Protests persist and attacks grow
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