This brings to 198 the number of recorded acts of protest in the first five months of the current Iranian year, starting March 21, triple the same period last year.
Some of the popular protests in the Iranian month that just ended were as follows: Protest gatherings by workers in light bulb factory in Rasht (northern Iran), Pars textiles in Semnan (east), oil industry and refinery in Abadan (southwest), Ekbatan carpet factory in Qazvin (west), Yassouj sugar factory in Kohkilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad (south), leather factory in Khorrasan (northeast), Iran lumber industry in Tehran; strikes by fuel tanker owners in Tehran, fuel tanker drivers in Isfahan (central Iran), Behshahr textiles (north) and medicine distribution company workers in Isfahan; protest gatherings by 3,000 drivers at Raja'i docks in Bandar Abbas (south), and demonstrations by people in Marivan (west), Najafabad (central Iran) and Bojnoord (northeast).
Suppression and clampdown in society coupled with acute economic crisis and expanding general impoverishment, particularly during Khatami's presidency, have given unprecedented dimensions to social protests and workers' strikes.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
September 8, 1998
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