900,000 Iranian workers on strike

Iran Press News: Translated by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi. Courtesy of FrontPageMag.

An estimated 900,000 workers all around Iran are on perpetual strike; every single one of them has gone unpaid. Most workers have not been paid for over a year or more. They've been known to march from towns all across Iran to Tehran, gather in front of the Islamic Assembly along with their union leader, sleep in parks for fear of running into their angry landlords, and now one has self-immolated. This mine worker from the Qal'eh Zari mines of Birjand, who was owed 17 months pay, begged his employer for a $5000 loan to pay his sick wife's medical bill (employers do not carry health insurance in Iran) and was denied.