NCRI – The following is a statement by the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on July 15, 2006:
The mullahs’ regime’s Minister of Labor Mohammad Jahromi admitted, “The statistics show that in last year alone 320,000 workers were laid off according to the labor laws.” His comments were reported by the state-run news agency Fars on July 13.
Referring to the regime’s labor laws, he said, “If the situation continues at the same pace, in five years, there would not be any full-time laborers working in the workshops.”
A year after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office, the hollow slogan of “bringing the oil revenues to the people’s tables” has proven to be false and there has been a dramatic rise in the number of unemployed workers.
The Iranian Resistance calls on international labor unions as well as human rights organizations to condemn the anti-labor policies of the mullahs’ regime.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 15, 2006
