Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, June 17, 2018 – A variety of incoming reports from different areas of Iran indicate popular protests continue with people actively voicing their demands.

College students in Tehran protested heavy jail sentences issued by the mullahs’ so-called judiciary against their classmates. Social School students rallied on Sunday and demanded these sentences be revoked. The students forced exam cancellations and protested on campus. They were seen holding placards calling on their professors to take a stance and raise their voice.

In Borujerd, western Iran, hundreds of municipality employees also rallied on Sunday, protesting their delayed paychecks. They have been protesting for the past few days outside the municipality office in this city.

Sunday’s rally began at 8 am local time and hundreds of municipality workers participated.

“To this moment the municipality has no plans to pay at least a portion of our demands and it has been a long time since they have been providing coupons to the protesting workers, only to raise further anger among the workers,” one protesting employee said.

According to these workers, the Bojnurd municipality has more than 1,700 employees and workers, and most of them are seeking their delayed paychecks.

In Eslamabad-e Gharb, western Iran, students of the Razi Technical Engineering School are refusing to go to school, protesting intense security measures and poor campus foods.

“We are effectively being threatened by the college authorities,” one student says. The protesting students are emphasizing they will continue rallying until their demands are met.

In other news, youths in the villages of Dil and Aru of Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad Province, southern Iran, held a rally on Sunday protesting the hiring of non-locals for the construction of a tunnel in Dil.

Furthermore, mismanagement by train officials in Mahshahr, southwest Iran, and the lack of fuel and spare parts, alongside train wagons being filled with passengers, all led to intense protests by the remaining passengers left stranded at the station.