Tensions and clashes continue to escalate in the city of Eslamabad Shatur, in Isfahan Province, where courageous farmers persist in their struggle to reclaim their natural right to irrigation water. In response to their legitimate and vital demands, riot forces affiliated with the Iranian regime have been deployed, meeting the farmers with batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets in an effort to silence and suppress them.
This struggle is no longer just about water—it has become a fight for dignity, justice, and the right to life. Despite injuries, including several cases of farmers losing their eyesight due to direct fire, the protesters remain resolute. They have declared their intention to continue sit-ins, vowing to hold Eid al-Fitr prayers on the dry bed of the Zayandeh Rud River, specifically on the historic Khaju Bridge, as a symbolic act of defiance against years of neglect and broken promises.
Today witnessed one of the fiercest confrontations in Shatur, where a farmer drove his vehicle toward riot police in a dramatic protest. The situation remains highly volatile, with limited information emerging from the ground.
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At the heart of the crisis lies the systematic diversion of Zayandeh Rud’s water to steel industries controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Farmers accuse the IRGC of running a mafia that monopolizes national resources for profit, leaving agricultural communities to suffer the consequences. They are no longer willing to remain silent and view their current resistance as a fight against the institutionalized corruption of the regime and the IRGC’s stranglehold over the country’s lifelines.
One farmer from eastern Isfahan stated: “They think they can blind us and silence us with teargas and bullets, but each shot only makes us stronger and more united. We are standing here for our rights, and this fight will continue until we reclaim what is rightfully ours.”
The farmers’ uprising in Isfahan is not just a local protest—it is a national cry for justice, and a stand against the oppressive grip of the IRGC mafia over the lives and livelihoods of Iran’s people.
