Iran at the wake of Labor Day - Labor's Bulletin No. 6

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Iran at the wake of Labor Day


Clerical regime concedes its fear of PMOI’s call

Tehran, April 27, 2010-  A state-run media expressed its fear of PMOI’s call for uprising in Labor Day, fearing that it will be executed.
Farhang News wrote: “the current of sedition is trying to help the excution of the call by the small group of Monafeghin (the name regime calls PMOI) in the days of Labor and Teachers Day (Teachers Day is on May 2 in Iran)”.
This media affiliated with Khamenei’s band added: “small group of Monafeghin has issued a statement last week asking people to rise for unrest on Labor and Teachers Days.
Farhang News has written that groups of regime’s dissidents intend to have protest gatherings in Tehran and some other provinces.


News / Protests

Iranians cry death to Khamenei in solidarity with workers
April 27, 2010 - In solidarity with the deprived laborers of Iran, the people of Tehran in the regions of Imam Hossein, Tehran No, Sarcheshmeh, Yusef Abad and Javadieh chanted 'Allah O Akbar' (God is Great) and 'Death to Khamenei' (the regime's Supreme Leader) at night from their rooftops and balconies.


Oil Company employees in Tehran protest employee food charges

April 27, 2010 - According to reports, employees of the Oil Company and its branches in Tehran all refrained from going to the cafeteria in protest to the fact that they had to pay for the food provided for employees. According to this report, each one of the employees ate their own food in their offices but refrained from going to the cafeteria.
On Sunday, April 25, 2010, the Iranian regime suddenly replaced the head of the Oil and Oil Refinery Department in this company. The head of the Petrochemical Department was replaced before this.

News / Suppression

10 months without visits; 20 year old worker kept in state of limbo in prison
April 27, 2010 - Ayub Qanbarpourian, a worker who was arrested during the post election protests, has been kept in prison for 10 months without any visits with his family and relatives.
He was under torture in the 2A cellblock run by the Revolutionary Guards Corps for some time before being transferred to cellblock 350 in Evin Prison where he is kept in a total state of limbo along with other political prisoners. 
Qanbarpourian, 20, is from a village in Lorestan and worked as a construction worker in Tehran. He participated in the peaceful demos in protest to election results on June 12 and was arrested
and jailed. He was the breadwinner of his family and in the past few months, his family has been suffering from severe financial problems.


Especial report :

Silk worm production on verge of destruction under religious dictators in Iran

April 27, 2010 - The Lageroud representative in the Iranian parliament said, "In Iran, 7,000 silk worm cocoons used to be produced but currently the production of cocoons has reached less than 1000 and it can definitely be said that this year it will decrease to less than 500".
"As the institution in charge of agriculture, the Jihad Agricultural Ministry has (destroyed) this industry with excessive uneconomical imports to the extent that (silk worm) farmers were forced to change their lands for other purposes", Mehrdad Lahouti said.
"In light of this, the Iran Silk Worm Company is on the brink of destruction", he stressed.


Statements:
 
Political prisoner announces solidarity with workers from prison
April 27, 2010 - Behrouz Javid Tehrani, a political prisoner in the notorious Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, issued a statement for Labor Day and announced his solidarity with all workers in Iran.
This statement reads in part:
"Labor Day is the day of the protests of millions of deprived laborers in the system of the mullahs' regime ruling Iran. In the past 30 years, the smallest labor protests were met with an iron fist and suppressed and the regime's security services have not failed to torture, imprison and expel workers wherever possible.
On May1, 2010, Iranian workers go hand in hand on the streets of Iran with Iranian youth who will also come out on the streets in their defense and together they will shake the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities. This is what we hope for, the earthquake that the astrologers of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have prophesized.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)