Reports indicate that Iranian regime security forces attacked a protest gathering of steel industry retirees in Tehran.
On Sunday, October 6, steel retirees held a protest in front of the presidential office near Pasteur Square.
Published videos show that the protest turned violent after the intervention of security forces, who not only beat the protesters but also arrested some of them.
On the same day, a number of steel industry retirees in Ahvaz also gathered in front of the Khuzestan Steel Pension Fund building, demanding that their concerns be addressed.
The state-run ILNA news agency also reported that labor retirees held protests in various cities in Iran on Sunday, including Shush, Ahvaz, and Mashhad.
According to this report, the retirees at these gatherings complained about the meager pensions and the economic crisis, saying that their repeated protests over the past months have been ineffective.
Following the relentless rise in inflation and the decline in citizens’ purchasing power in Iran, protests by various sectors over low wages and economic hardships have significantly increased in the past one or two years.
Steel industry retirees are among these protesters, who have held numerous gatherings in recent months to protest the lack of attention to their demands.
The retirees’ demands in these protests include increasing their pensions, implementing the wage equalization law, resolving issues with supplementary insurance, paying end-of-year bonuses, and accounting for the service records of hard and hazardous jobs in the pension adjustments.
According to official statistics, 60 percent of the country’s population is currently considered to be living below the poverty line.
