The control of the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries rests mainly with the IRGC and foundations associated with Ali Khamenei. These entities exploit workers and suppress any form of dissent with impunity.
On Saturday, April 22, oil and petrochemical industry workers in several Iranian cities, such as Gachsaran, Assalouyeh, Dehloran, Shiraz, Bushehr, Lordegan, Sirjan, Jask, Kangan, Kerman, Bandar Mahshahr, Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, and Yazd, staged a protest due to their low wages, non-payment of wages and benefits, grueling working conditions, and lack of attention to their demands. As a result, they went on strike.
Shiraz, workers of Jundi Shapur Petrochemical Company and Hengam Petrochemical Company
Some of these strikes are:
- Gachsaran, Tiam Sanat oil workers
- Assalouyeh, workers of Phase 14, Apadana Phase, Damavand Petrochemical, Farzanegan Refinery, Exir Sanat Company, Sadaf Petrochemical Workers of Ide Sazan Company
- Dehloran, workers of IGC Dasht Abbas company
- Shiraz, workers of Jundi Shapur Petrochemical Company and Hengam Petrochemical Company
- Bushehr, Jahan Pars company workers, and Sadaf petrochemical workers
- Lordegan, Panah Sanat company workers
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Sirjan, workers of the steel development company
- Jack, Hidrosazan company workers in Jask Petro-refinery and project workers working in petrochemicals
- Kangan, Pars Lian company workers, and Kushan steel company workers
- Kerman, workers of Karangstar Sarcheshme company
- Bandar Mahshahr, workers of Kian Saze Bunova
- Bandar Abbas, Aftab company workers
- Isfahan, workers of Sepidaneh Gostar Foulad Company
- Yazd, iron ore company workers
Kerman, workers of Karangstar Sarcheshme company
Iran’s oil, gas, and petrochemical industries generate astronomical revenues, but unfortunately, they are mainly controlled by the Revolutionary Guards and Khamenei-affiliated institutions. These entities leverage their government powers to exploit workers and stifle any form of dissent or protest.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), saluted the striking workers in Iran’s oil and petrochemical industry across various cities. She highlighted the fact that while the hardworking people and laborers of Iran are deprived of their basic rights and struggle to make ends meet, the leaders of the anti-labor regime, including the IRGC commanders and corrupt children of the regime’s elites, continue to loot the country’s wealth in astronomical proportions.
Oil and petrochemical workers across cities such as Gachsaran, Asaluyeh, Dehloran, Shiraz, Bushehr, Lordegan, Sirjan, Jask, Kangan, Kerman, and others have initiated a strike. I extend my support to them. Workers and laborers in our country are being deprived of their basic…
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 22, 2023
These same leaders waste the nation’s resources on anti-patriotic nuclear and missile projects, as well as foreign war-mongering, all to maintain the infamous Velayat-e Faqih system. Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that the only way to achieve freedom, justice, and sovereignty for the Iranian people is through resistance and an uprising to overthrow the current regime.
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