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Ahwaz protests in Iran: A sign of things to come?

Tensions continue to rise between the new US administration and Iran with a series of actions and reactions. Most recently, Iran has launched a new round of military drills, embarking on more provocative actions, while US allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel have joined in by issuing what is described as twin warnings to Iran.

Ahvaz Protests a Prelude to Events Which Will Rattle the Mullahs' Entire Foundation

All the while, what should not go neglected is the simmering status inside Iran. The society is considered a powder keg as unrest continues to grow after 38 years of the mullahs’ atrocious dictatorship. The last four years of the so-called “moderate” or “reformist” Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has also failed to yield any demands raised by the people despite claiming to hold the “key” to all problems.
The city of Ahwaz in southwest Iran has been the scene of continuous unrest, as locals are protesting a slate of disastrous plans implemented by the mullahs’ regime to reroute Karoon River, a major source of water for agriculture and other vital aspects of life in this area where the summer is scorching hot.
These projects include also the diversion of waters from Karkhe River, excessive dam construction and the oil ministry resorting to inexpensive oil extraction methods. This practice, mainly implemented by the Revolutionary Guards, has fruited a long list of dried local lakes and ponds.
The result has been nothing but increasing air pollution and water and power being frequently cut off. To this end, the people’s very health is in danger as clean air to breath is literally hard to find.
Banks, administrative offices, schools and universities have been closed in nearly a dozen Khuzestan Province cities. Even oil production, which Tehran seems to boast to have escalated above 4 million barrels per day now, has suffered tremendously with a 770,000-barrel nosedive.

The city of Ahwaz in southwest Iran has been the scene of continuous unrest. (File photo: AFP)

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Iran: let's wake up & rise up before we are buried under the earth!

Ahvaz's people : Iran: let's wake up & rise up before we are buried under the earth!

People of Ahvaz were back into the streets for the sixth consecutive day, protesting against air pollution and water and electricity’s nonstop cut – offs  despite all the police warnings on the evening of Saturday February18.
Over the past week, the city of Ahvaz and other cities in Khuzestan Province held many protest rallies and demonstrations.
The following video clip reflects the remarks of MEK spokesman Shahin Gobadi, about continuous protest gatherings and demonstrations of people in Ahvaz. 

MEK spokesman reacts to anti-regime protests by Iranian people in Ahvaz

Following water, electricity and communications services facing shortages and cut-offs in Ahvaz and 11 other cities of Khuzestan Province due to dust storms from January 28 onward, on Thursday and Friday all cities of Khuzestan continued to witness major power outages. Also on Saturday, dust covered all these cities, causing closure of schools and universities in 20 cities.....

People of Ahvaz, Stage Protest Gathering Against the Continuous Water and Electricity Cut Offs

Although some of the dust storms originate from hotspots located in Iraq some believe that despite what Department of Environment claims about Hour-al-Azim wetland restoration the wetland is almost dried up due to plundering policies of regime in oil extracting activities in the region.
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Khuzestan Electricity, Water and Communication Blackout Is Becoming National Threat

The protesters chant, "Death to tyranny", "death to repression"

A number of power stations in the Khuzestan province failed and water and electricity in most major cities of this province were cut off on February 11. The situation was blamed on heavy dust and humidity of almost 100%.
The people of Ahwaz have taken to the streets today for the third consecutive day to protest the disastrous air pollution and frequent water and power cut-offs in the capital of Khuzistan Province.
The clerical regime has intervened by suppressive forces and machine-gun-mounted vehicles over the past days and blocked the streets leading to the Governor's Building, the suspended bridge and the Firefighting Sq. to curb the spread of protests.

The clerical regime has intervened by suppressive forces and machine-gun-mounted vehicles

The protesters chant, "Death to tyranny", "death to repression", "we, the people of Ahwaz, won't accept oppression", "incompetent officials must be expelled", "impostor (Massoumeh) Ebtekar, resign, resign", "clean air is our right, Ahwaz is our city", "Shame on the State Security Force", and "unite, unite!"
They also shouted slogans against the Governor of Khuzistan.
Members of the Iranian regime’s parliament and experts warn the recent electricity, water and communication blackout in southern oil reach province of Khuzestan which has revealed ‘negligence’ by authorities is becoming a national threat.

The protesters chant "we, the people of Ahwaz, won't accept oppression"

The Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the nation to help decrease the pressure on the deprived people of this area, especially the sick and vulnerable.
Maryam Rajavi said: The Only Solution for the Acute Crises in Khuzistan Is to Escalate Popular Protests and Rise up to Drive Back the Clerical Regime.
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Iran: protesting of the Workers and University Graduates

 Protest gathering by the 'Haft Tappeh' sugarcane factory workers in Khuzestan.

The workers in some Iranian cities have protested against the poor state of their livelihoods and the overdue payments. For example on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th December 2016, the workers  protested against the poor state of their livelihoods and the overdue payments. In addition to that, the graduate students of the Petroleum University of Technology lodged a protest against the condition of employments.
According to Agency reports some protest have done in  some cities as : 

As ILNA News Agency reports:
-  protests of  workers of Poonel-Talesh Highway Project  against the overdue salaries and insurance payments on Sunday 25th December 2016.

Protests of workers of Iran National Steel Industrial Group protested against the overdue salaries in the company in Ahvaz on Sunday 25th December 2016.

Iran National Steel Industrial Group

 The workers of Agroindustrial Complex of Mahabad have been protesting for the continuing 25 days. 
As Tasnim News Agency : held a  rally of a group of graduates of Petroleum University of Technology for the 4th time in front of Parliament On Sunday 25th December 2016 to protest against the indeterminable status of employment in the national oil company by the government and in particular by the Ministry of Petroleum.
workers want their rights .

 Petroleum University of Technology

Also Protest gathering by the 'Haft Tappeh' sugarcane factory workers in Khuzestan.
Sugarcane cutters in Haft Tappeh staged their second protest on Saturday, December 24, against nonpayment of their salaries.
“The Haft Tappeh sugarcane company has only paid a small portion of the salaries of its sugarcane cutters, who work under extremely difficult conditions”, said the protesting workers.

Establishing Intelligence University in Southwestern Iran for Even More Suppression

Intelligence University to Be Established in Southwestern Iran for Even More Suppression

NCRI - The Iranian regime’s Director General of Intelligence in Khuzestan province (Southwestern Iran) has spoken in an interview of the establishment of the ‘University of Intelligence and Security’ in Ahwaz, so as to further stifle the social protests as well as the political and civil rights activists.
The state news agency ISNA has quoted Khuzestan province’s Director General of Intelligence Hossein Bagherzadeh on Wednesday 2 November as saying: “the security policy approach in Khuzestan province is changing, with new approaches being introduced according to the new threats to the province.”
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Iran: Army Air Force staff hold a protest rally in Dezful

Army Air Force staff hold a protest rally in Dezful

NCRI - A group of Army Air Force staff in Dezful, Khuzestan (Southern Iran), held a rally on Monday October 3 to protest against the ‘Corruption in the Army’s Housing Co-operative’.
The participants in the rally, who were the personnel of Dezful’s Fourth Air Base, expressed their protest against the regime’s predatory brokers in the cooperative by chanting slogans like “co-operative! Give us our money back!” They were also carrying a banner which read “where is our money?”
The Army’s Housing Co-operative protesters say that the co-operative have violated their obligations, having taken from each applicant an amount of 35 million Tomans to give them home, but after three years they neither deliver the applicants their promised land nor give them their money back.
one of the protesters says: “the Army’s ‘Parvaz’ Housing Co-operative has taken the applicants’ money three years ago provided that they participate in the housing, but now there’s no land and no co-operative, either.” The victims have been engaged in this embezzlement for the past two years. They had also corresponded with Khuzestan’s local officials in the past, demanding that their protests be addressed

Iran: People in Ahvaz protest against execution of two youths

People in Ahvaz protest against execution of two youths

NCRI - On Thursday, September 29, a group of Ahvazi youths staged a protest at night against the Iranian regime by setting up fire and chanting anti-government slogans in Enqelab Avenue in the south-western city of Ahvaz to show their protest against the execution of two young ethnic Arabs of the city.  

The two youths were Adnan Mazban al-Amouri and Ali Sharif al-Amouri, residents of Ghaleh Chan’an in Khuzestan province (south-western Iran), who were executed on Wednesday September 28 in Gohardasht Prison (north-west of Tehran) allegedly on the charges of “armed robbery” and “acting against national security.”

Iran: Strikes and protests of workers in major cities

Iran: Strikes and protests of workers in major cities

NCRI - According to reports from Tehran, ‘High-Voltage station’ workers gathering in front of regime’s reactionary parliament, were forced to leave the area following the intervention of the suppressive law enforcement agents. The workers then gathered once again in front of the Management and Planning Organization as well as the parliament’s park area while wearing yellow helmets.
In Central Iran, coffee shop owners in Isfahan held a gathering in front of Isfahan Governor’s place on Sunday September 25 in protest against the closure of their shops. It is noteworthy that more than 400 coffee shops have been shut down in Isfahan in recent weeks.
On the morning of Saturday September 24, a group of agricultural engineering supervisors in Khuzestan (Southern Iran) gathered in front of Ministry of Agriculture in Ahwaz.
One of the demonstrators said that they have been promised to be hired in the Ministry from 2011, but after five years, still nothing has been done in this regard. The agricultural supervisors who were promised to be hired, have now more than six years of work experience.
He added: “for years we have been waiting to be hired and now that we’ve grown older, we can’t even apply for a job elsewhere.”
More than 150 of the agricultural engineering supervisors have applied for a job in the Ministry of Agriculture in Khuzestan, but their cases have not yet been dealt with.
The gathering in front of Khuzestan Agricultural Organization lasted for two hours. After receiving no response, the demonstrators then shifted to Khuzestan Management and Planning Organization.