Protesters chant: “Poverty line:$ 900; our salary: $300”
NCRI – On October 17 morning, thousands of retired educators in the cities of Tehran, Qazvin, Yazd, Isfahan and Mashhad staged demonstrations to demand homogenizing their salaries and receiving their deferred salaries.
In Tehran, more than 1300 protesters gathered outside Management and Planning Organization. Va’ez Mahdavi, the deputy of the Organization, tried to calm the protesters by saying lies, but the demonstrators pushed him out of the scene by chanting: “It’s a lie, it’s a lie” and “If we didn’t exist, you wouldn’t have been up there.” The demonstrators chanted, “teachers are awake, they hate discrimination”, and “Poverty line: 3 million; our salary: 1 million”. They carried banners displaying the amount of their salaries compared to the inflation rate. The demonstration was carried out despite the mullahs’ regime’s all efforts to prevent or postpone it.
Training and Education Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) calls all brave Iranian educators, women and youths to show their solidarity with the noble and suffering educators and the retired. Getting united to change the regime and to stablish democracy and freedom in Iran is the sole path for the salvation of all deprived walks of the society from the existing oppression and poverty and increasing pressures.
Training and Education Committee of the
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
17 October 2016
