On Sunday, November 5, retirees of the Social Safety Group within the cities of Shush, Ahvaz, Dezful, and Kermanshah protested in opposition to poor residing situations and the shortage of consideration to their calls for, together with the necessity for increased pensions because of the rising prices of residing. On the similar time, retirees of the metal trade within the cities of Shahrud, Ghaemshahr, and Isfahan held protest rallies for related causes.
November 5—Shush, southwest #Iran
Retirees of the Social Safety Group from Shush and Haft Tappeh protest for increased pensions and different primary wants.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/Z0dmdYKKAd— Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 5, 2023
The pensioners had been chanting slogans together with, “We is not going to dwell beneath oppression,” “Pensioners will die however is not going to give in to shame,” and “We solely get our rights on the road!”
Retirees had been chanting, “We is not going to relaxation till we’ve got our rights,” “Shout on your rights” and “The bankrupt authorities is the enemy of pensioners,” expressing their frustration and anger on the harmful insurance policies of the federal government of Ebrahim Raisi.
November 5—Kermanshah, western #Iran
Retirees of the Social Safety Group protest for increased pensions and different primary wants.
“Excessive costs and inflation have destroyed the individuals’s livelihoods,” protesters chant#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/aVT4CvFFNW— Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 5, 2023
In Ahvaz, numerous pensioners gathered in entrance of the workplaces of the Social Safety Authority of this metropolis and chanted “We is not going to dwell beneath oppression, we sacrifice our lives within the path of freedom, dying to slavery.”
The deprived pensioners demand their looted salaries after a lifetime of work and energy. However the regime has been stealing for years from pension funds for its personal outrageous ends. Pension funds are experiencing a “enormous disaster” because of the looting and corruption of the regime.
November 5—Dezful, southwest #Iran
Retirees of the Social Safety Group maintain rally in entrance of the workplaces of the Social Safety Group protest for increased pensions and different primary wants.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/hbwLtFWIjA— Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 5, 2023
On this regard, the state-run newspaper Hammihan wrote on October 7, “Iranian society faces a variety of enormous challenges that enhance its dimensions and restrict its monetary solvency over time. There are challenges such because the state of the banking system, the water system and pure assets, and the setting, unemployment, and budgetary imbalance, crucial of that are pension funds.”
The pension fund disaster is rooted within the theft of individuals’s cash and the systematic corruption of the federal government and entities of Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei.
“The disaster of social safety funds is organized. It’s a disaster that has systematically stolen or destroyed what was within the funds,” stated Saeed Lailaz, an analyst with shut ties to the regime.
November 5—Ghaemshahr, northern #Iran
Retirees of the metal trade maintain protest rally, demanding increased pensions and different primary rights.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/GGfz0S7elW— Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 5, 2023
On 8 Could 2023, the state-run newspaper Etemad, referring to the amount of commerce of state-backed looters with individuals’s funds, wrote: “The federal government has a complete debt of 5,010 trillion rials (approx. $10 billion) to pension funds. Even when all oil revenues return to the nation, it’s not doable to pay the principal and dues of those money owed simply.”
The noble pensioners who’ve lived a dignified life as we speak clearly see the fruits of their life-long efforts being looted by corrupt authorities officers, and as we speak their lives have reached the road of distress. And their situations develop worse attributable to rising inflation, excessive prices of residing, well being care issues, and different social challenges which have develop into intertwined.
It’s the motive that as we speak’s retirees, who should dwell a quiet and carefree life after 30 years of laborious work, stand boldly as much as the regime and won’t settle for residing in trendy slavery beneath the corrupt rule of the mullahs.
