Farmers’ Protests in Iran

From MEK Iran indicate that the exasperated breeders and farmers in Isfahan demonstrated in front of the governorate. Farmers have rallied to claim their water quota and protest being deprived of water due to the diversion of the Zayandehroud River. Herders protested against the high price of feed and the high cost of upkeep.

Security forces, who sought to oppose farmers and herders and prevent them from entering the governorate, met resistance. Protesters chanted, "Even if we have to die, we will get our rights". A group of women farmers and their daughters lined up against the repressive forces calling on the Saints to "end oppression". The demonstrators questioned the officers with cries of "garbage, garbage".

From the MEK Iran share on their Youtube channel that, at the same time, farmers in Damghan were protesting against the low price of milk and the high cost of livestock inputs.

Meanwhile, the strike by oil and petrochemical workers on Wednesday July 7, 2021 has reached its nineteenth day. In recent days, the welders of the 36 Inches line in Zahedan, the welders of the 48 line in Kerman (the company Asia Haftsang) and the welders of the Darya Sahel Racht company, as well as the workers of the pumping station of Firouzabad, joined the strike. To date, contract workers from at least 87 oil and petrochemical factories and facilities in 26 cities have joined the strike. Among them were members of the MEK Iran.

To protest against the blackouts on Tuesday evening, for the fourth night in a row, residents of various towns across the country, some of them members of the Iranian Opposition Organization MEK Iran, including Racht, Shiraz, Machad, Kermanchah and Fassa, protested with cries of "Down with Khamenei!" Down with the dictator!"

The official Hamdeli daily for July 7 warned that "if the situation continues, it will not end with a simple protest against the power outages, and the scope of the protests will take on political and security dimensions." Senior regime officials should look back on the protests of 2017/2018 and the rise in gasoline prices in November 2019, and after reviewing them, believe that today the threshold of the population's tolerance is much lower than in November 2019".