PMOI/MEK,29 April ,2018— International Labor Day has arrived and Iran’s workers are in the streets chanting:
“We haven’t been paid for 12 months”
“Our wives and children are hungry”
“How else do we have to say it: WE’RE HUNGRY. HUNGRY!”
Question: What happened to the money needed to pay these workers and why doesn’t the Iranian regime, known to plunder its own people, pay these workers?
The answer is plain and simple – and of course, quite heartbreaking. Hear it from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani himself.
“In the harshest of economic times, the Iranian government supported Iraq. Who paid for all the weapons Iraq needed? Who provided all of Syria’s needs despite the sanctions? Who provided for their paychecks and weapons? The missiles were paid for by the (Iranian) government and Defense Ministry,” Rouhani said on April 9th, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.
This is Iran’s president in his own words explaining why millions of workers are being deprived of their deserved paychecks and pensions.
Millions of people are suffering from such policies inside Iran, and the money used by Tehran to prop up Syria’s Assad regime has brought nothing but misery to millions of more people and left an entire country in ruins.
Rouhani’s remarks also prove why the protesting Iranian people are chanting:
“Let go of Syria, think about us”
“Our enemy is right here, they lie and say its America”
Workers in other countries of the globe stage rallies and protests demanding raises. Iran’s innocent workers, however, are seen protesting demanding paychecks that have been delayed for 12 months or even more.
“The number of people hungry in Iran is alarming… Five million people are living in utter poverty… meaning they’re sleeping hungry,” according to Iranian Deputy Labor Minister Ahmad Maydari. (IRNA – January 4)
This has been an ongoing trend in Iran. Poverty reached 18 percent under the presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005). Now, however, over 50 million of Iran’s 80 million population are living in poverty, according to the Tasnim news agency, said to be affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force.
There are other deeply disturbing aspects to this issue.
“[The Iranian regime] is not threatened by the U.S. and Israel. What is threatening us today is domestic corruption that is leading to increasing unrest and turmoil,” according to a state-TV program aired on May 28, 2017.
What remains unanswered is why don’t authorities take the measures necessary to resolve this crisis?
“Fighting corruption is very difficult. As I said a few years ago, corruption is tantamount to a seven-headed dragon that is not easily defeated,” said Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 8.
Although International Labor Day has arrived and there is no word of workers receiving their 12-months delayed paychecks, the 2017/2018 uprising proved, especially to senior Iranian regime officials, that this nation is reaching its tolerance limits.
The growing number of protests mushrooming across the country is already overwhelming the ruling regime.
