On December 10, protests by employees of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company on Siri Island continued.
Socioeconomic protests in Iran continued with gatherings of retirees from the Social Security Organization in several cities and oil industry workers on Siri island and Aghajari. At the same time, vendors in Ganaveh continued their strike for several consecutive days.
According to reports on social media on December 10th, a number of retirees from the Social Security Organization gathered in several cities in Iran, including Ahvaz, Arak, Kermanshah, and Shush. These protesters, demanding the resolution of livelihood and healthcare issues, voiced their objections to economic policies and injustice in the Iranian regime, citing the expansion of embezzlement.
The gathering of retirees from the Social Security Organization in Shush included the symbolic act of distributing tea as a reference to a recent government embezzlement case, and the protesters chanted slogans such as, “Debsh tea is great, but our table is empty.”
Based on the slogans written on their placards, protesters in Kermanshah demanded “a change in the bylaws of the Retirees’ Association and the establishment of an independent organization” as their “immediate demand.”
Retirees from the steel industry also gathered in Isfahan and Ahvaz in front of the Steel Pension Fund buildings.
The ongoing protests by retirees, which have been taking place continuously for several days, coincide with the approval of a provision in the “Seventh Plan” bill in the parliament, which will raise the retirement age for Iranian citizens.
Furthermore, on December 10, a group of employees from the Iran Offshore Oil Company on Siri Island in Hormozgan Province, and a number of official employees of the Aghajari Oil and Gas Exploitation Company in Khuzestan Province, gathered at their workplaces to protest the lack of attention to their demands.
Reports on social media indicate the continuation of the market vendors’ strike in Ganaveh. This is the fifteenth day of the extensive strike in the Ganaveh market in Bushehr Province. The protest by this group of workers is against the decision to “regulate and supervise border trade,” which imposes restrictions on the import of goods labeled as “smuggling” and affects the livelihoods of thousands of people.
