NCRI – Iranians have staged protests at shortages of food, water and power supplies during freezing winter weather.
Crowds gathered outside the governate office in the city of Gilan Gharb in recent days to protest at the distribution and quality of the Food Basket.The demonstrations comes amid claims that regime agents have given goods to their friends and relatives with salaries of more than five million rials, the cap set to receive these food baskets.
In the cities of Naghde and Ashnaviyeh, protests also took place on February 8th outside governate offices in anger at the distribution and quality of food baskets, claiming they had been given old and rotten food.
More angry protests over food baskets took place in the city of Ahwaz, where only three stores with three employees each were allocated to distribution, creating 1km long queues.
Farmers and their representatives from the Khorasagan region in the city of Isfahan protested outside the Majlis (parliament) on February 7 demanding their right to water and compensation for farmers.
Residents of Tehran’s Nezam Abad region protested on February 7 against a major drop in gas pressure, causing heating and cooking appliances to stop working.
Street vendors in Tehran are resisting measures imposed by the regime’s police and security forces who are trying to confiscate their goods, which they are being forced to sell on the streets in freezing weather in order to make ends meet.
Water and power shortages in the western Mazandaran Province have resulted in a price hike in mineral water in the region. Residents gathering in protest on February 4 in anger at price rises, claiming prices for a pack of mineral water have been hiked from 60,000 to 120,000 rials (around $4).
And more than 200 agricultural engineers staged a strike outside the parliament in Tehran protesting at the failure to implement the law governing the hiring of supervisors.
