Iran: A look at the popular protests on November 11, 2016
- Saturday, 12 November 2016 18:08
NCRI - A group of victims of ‘Padideh Shandiz’ a Tourism Development Company, who lost their financial assets, staged a gathering on the last day of the media exhibition in Tehran to protest against plundering of their properties by governmental gangs involved in the project of this company.
One of the victims said: “Aren’t you a Muslim? Don’t you have children yourself? How can you sleep at night while I, at the age of 24, have to sell my kidney?
A day earlier, when a number of frustrated people angry at the plunderers of “Mehr Pardis” housing project realized that the head of the regime’s Central Bank was visiting the media exhibition, they quickly gathered there and staged a protest against him chanting slogans such as “They stole our money and didn’t give us our house.” The bodyguards of this state official were forced to quickly take him away from the scene.
Also a number of applicants for the housing project in the Southwestern city of Ahvaz staged a protest gathering in front of the regime’s court in this city.
Meanwhile, Teachers’ Trade Association held a campaign in support of Ismail Abdi, a member of the Association recently arrested by the notorious Intelligence Ministry and transferred to Evin prison. The campaign, titled “Teacher’s place is not in prison”, started its work on a Telegram channel and wrote: “One demand of the educators’ Global Campaign is to end security approach and dealing with the Teachers' Trade Union activists.” In addition, a group of teachers rushed to visit Mr. Abdi’s family in solidarity.
In Anbarabad town in Southern city of Kerman, people who were faced with a brutal attack by the government officials and security forces to cut off the electricity and power to their homes, clashed with government forces whose number reached as high as 70 to 80 agents. One of the residents said many of them were plainclothes and their brutality against the villagers had no border.
National Student Trade Council across the country issued a statement condemning censorship of news on students protest actions… The student organization in its statement adds: “Media outlets are run by people whose interests make them censor and distort (falsify) the events and take advantage of them. For example, one can point out the media’s silence on the trade protests by students of Tehran University in 2015 and the recent protest gathering at Chamran dormitory, several trade protests at Universities in Zanjan, Orumiyeh, and Shahrood, as well as Noushirvani University in Babol, Allameh University in Tehran, and other universities.”
The Students of Razi University in Kerman disrupted a speech by Saeed Jalili former nuclear negotiator, from Khamenei’s band. The students held placards demanding release of Yashar Soltani, chief editor of Me’mary (Architecture) publication who exposed Pasdar Ghalibaf’s theft (land grabbing and illegal seizure of land) in Tehran’s City Municipality. The protest was so intense that Jalili had to stop his speech unfinished and leave the university.
