NCRI – Thousands of deprived workers demonstrated against leaders of the Iranian regime on the anniversary of the international Labor Day.
Despite tight security, thousands of workers took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the occasion. Workers gathered from across the capital in Pounak District, west of Tehran, turning the event into an all out demonstration against ruling religious dictatorship. The Participants chanted slogans directed at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
More than 3,000 workers presented in Kheirollahi Stadium prevented Alireza Mahjoub, a member of the mullahs' Majlis (parliament), from speaking and forced him out of the compound. The demonstrators shouted slogans against the supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while marching on the streets surrounding the stadium.
The state Security Forces–Mullahs' suppressive Police–and members of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), plain-cloths agents as well as members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) special unit attacked the participants fearing the spread of demonstration.
Marching workers chanted anti-government slogans such as, "The imprisoned workers must be freed," "We work to live and not live to work," "We do not need nuclear energy, we do not want $185 a month salary."
Four thousand workers in the eastern city of Semnan, 4,000 in the northern city of Rasht, 600 in the southwestern city of Shoosh and many others in the western city of Kermanshah and Homayoun-shahr took to the streets, ignoring the warnings by the SSF agents.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, lauded the rising workers and congratulated them on the anniversary of May Day, the International Labor Day. She called on all the international human rights organizations and labor organizations to condemn the suppressive measures adopted by the mullahs' regime against the Iranian workers, in particular, the brutal attack on the protesting workers in Tehran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 1, 2008
