• Truckers surpass 11th day of nationwide strike
June 1, 2018 – Tens of thousands of truck drivers across Iran continued a nationwide strike on Friday, marking its 11th consecutive day.
Truck drivers in Kermanshah and nearby cities in western Iran, Mashhad, Najaf Abad, Aligudarz and many other cities continued their protests on Friday. Beginning on May 22nd, the drivers have spread their initiative to over 280 cities despite a variety of plots launched by the Iranian regime to cause rifts among their ranks.
• Park-e Laleh mothers call for unity and solidarity for freedom
Some of the Mothers of the martyrs of 1988 massacre of the political prisoners in Iran also called Park –e Laleh mothers, issued a statement, declaring support for the protests of Iran’s men and women from all walks of life and calling for abolition of the death penalty for all prisoners.
In their statement issued on May 28, 2018, the Mothers of Park-e Laleh called on the people of Iran to have unity and solidarity. Their statement reads in part, “The Islamic regime ruling Iran was illegitimate from the beginning. It was incepted with savagery and ruthlessness to destroy people’s lives and freedoms.
• Women of the Northern city of Babol blocked a road as an act of protest
Men and women related to victims of an accident on the Kiakola Road in Babol, northern Iran, staged an act of protest on Thursday, May 31, 2018, and blocked the road.
The inhabitants of Kapoul-Chal village and the families of the victims of a road accident held a protest on Kiakola Road against lack of safety and repeated accidents on this road.
• Yaresan women are detained in horrible conditions in Qarchak
Yaresan women are held in deplorable conditions in the Qarchak Prison in Varamin, recently published reports from Iran say.
Sepideh Moradi, Sima Entesari, Shima Entessari, Avisha Jalaleddin, Shokoufeh Yadollahi, Maryam Farsiani, Nazill Noori, Maryam Barakouhi, Elham Ahmadi and Sedigheh Safabakht have been detained since February 20, 2018, in Qarchak Prison under inhuman conditions.
• Iran: Some 1,000 women nurses emigrate every year
Every year, around 1,000 women nurses leave Iran and immigrate to other countries due to discrimination.
Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, Secretary General of the House of Nurses, gave an interview to the state-run ILNA news agency on May 30, 2018, revealing the intolerable pressure and humiliation imposed on women in the nursing profession in Iran.
