
Various sectors of Iranian people staged more than 800 protesting moves against the clerical regime and its anti-people’s policies during May 2008.
According to registered statistics workers, students, teachers, political prisoners and other sectors of the people staged more than 800 strikes, sit-ins and protesting gatherings against the suppressive and predatory measures of the clerical regime and clashed with the regime’s agents in numerous occasions. Some of these protesting moves were:
The angry people of Aivan-e-Gharb, Ilam province, clashed with the regime’s State Security Forces and attacked the governmental centers and banks and demolished them; the regime’s agents fired at the people and killed a number of them.
On May day, thousands of workers across Iran turned the May day into the scene of anti-government demonstrations, these demonstrations which continued on May 2 included Tehran, Isfahan, Rasht, Semnan, Haft-Tappeh, Qom, Qazvin, Sanandaj, Kerman, Bojnoured as well as many other cities.
Strikes and demonstrations of 5000 workers of the Haft-Tappeh Sugar Cane Factory in Khusistan province: the workers blocked the main Khuzestan’s Ahvaz-Andimeshk highway several times and clashed with the State Security Forces.
The students staged more than 50 anti-regime strikes, sit-ins and protesting gatherings in different universities.