Monday’s protest follows last week’s five-day long teacher strike in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz and Marivan.
Monday’s protest follows last week’s five-day long teacher strike in the cities of Tehran, Shiraz and Marivan.
Teachers had gathered since noon on Monday in front of the mullahs’ Ministry of Education in the capital Tehran. They were surrounded and attacked by the regime’s suppressive forces.
Participants at the protest gathering confronted suppressive forces attacks by chanting, “Death to dictator,” “teacher will die, but will never surrender,” and “Teachers rise up against oppression and discrimination.”
Based on reports from Iran, the regime’s intelligence agents have arrested a number of teachers, taking them to undisclosed locations.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, lauded the freedom-loving teachers of Iran who have risen up despite the mullahs’ intense suppression, expressing their rage and frustration with chants like, “Death to dictator” and “Phony advocate of justice: Shame on you, shame on you.”
Mrs. Rajavi called on various sectors of the Iranian society, especially students, to rise up in support of, and in solidarity with, the teachers.
The President-elect of Iranian Resistance also called on human rights advocates, and teachers unions and syndicates across the world, to back the legitimate demands of Iranian teachers. She urged competent international authorities and human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to adopt urgent and binding measures in order to help free those arrested.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 5, 2009