NCRI – 2,000 retired teachers will not be paid this year by the mullahs' Ministry of Education, reported the state-run daily Resalat on Saturday. The ministry claimed that there are no funds to pay the pensioners.
Ali Abbaspour Tehrani, head of mullahs' Majlis (parliament) Investigation Committee told the semi-official new agency Fars, "We have received complaints from some retried teachers that they have not been paid their salaries for the entire year [Persian calendar starting 21 of March]."
NCRI – 2,000 retired teachers will not be paid this year by the mullahs' Ministry of Education, reported the state-run daily Resalat on Saturday. The ministry claimed that there are no funds to pay the pensioners.
Ali Abbaspour Tehrani, head of mullahs' Majlis (parliament) Investigation Committee told the semi-official new agency Fars, "We have received complaints from some retried teachers that they have not been paid their salaries for the entire year [Persian calendar starting 21 of March]."
"Out of 6,000 retired ministry's employees this year, roughly 4,000 will be paid according to the regulations," Abbaspour said.
He said that there is a budget problem and the Education Ministry is negotiating with the Organization of Retired Government Employees to come up with a solution.
Abbaspour did not offer a way for the 2,000 mostly senior citizens solely depended on their pension salaries what to do in the meantime.
The problem of teachers' pay even for those who have not reached retirement yet surfaces at the beginning of every school year. However, the officials in mullahs' Ministry of Education pay no attention to the teachers' problems and would suppress them instead.
In February 2007, the streets ending to the Majlis were the scene of protests by more than 15,000 teachers demanding their full pay rise in accordance with the sky rocketing cost of living for the fix income families. With teachers very low pay grades, they are hardly able to cope with the cost of living.
Under the mullahs' rule, Iran’s oil-based economy is fundamentally dysfunctional. The official inflation rate is 30% and there is double-digit unemployment. Hundreds of protests, sit-ins and strikes by trade unions, teachers, and others prove beyond any doubt that the economic problems are endemic.
