10/11/2021 - Protests by different sectors across Iran continued in the past week.
- Farmers in Isfahan resumed their gathering for the third consecutive day. Protesting the state officials’ negligence to address the water problem, they also spent the last night setting up tents at the Zayandehrood river bed. The farmers have been regularly protesting the deteriorating conditions of the province’s farming industry and water shortages.
The regime’s policies and destructive projects, including the building of dams without regard to the province’s ecosystem, has resulted in severe ecological problems
The protesters called out to the city officials questioning why they have not yet come to meet with the protesters and hear their problems.
- Workers of Iran Khodro Khorasan Company (a car manufacturing company) went on strike inside the factory. Four thousand workers of the company are protesting against forced overtime hours and low wages. The workers have not received their salaries for several months. Their base wages also haven’t changed in the past two years despite the increase in inflation and the lowering value of the rial.
In the past two years, the prices of vehicles have increased fivefold, but the salaries of the workers have not changed, the protesters say.
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