Today, Saturday, July 26, 2025, a series of news reports from across the country paint a clear picture of the deep crises faced by workers, teachers, porters, and residents of marginalized areas—crises that are not natural disasters, but the product of systematic policies of poverty and repression.
In the west of the country, a porter named Barzan Salehi was shot dead by military forces at the Baneh border—another fatal example of the deadly treatment of those trapped in structural poverty. On the same day, a livestock worker in Gilan-e Gharb drowned in a workshop pond while grazing animals, due to unsafe working conditions.
Elsewhere, in the marshes of Abadan, three employees of the Oil Exploration Company were involved in an accident, one of whom lost his life. Meanwhile in Turkey, Feisal Rastgoo, an Iranian migrant worker who had arrived only three days earlier in search of work, died after falling from a building—another case illustrating the forced migration of workers into jobs with no protection or safety standards.
In the south, railway construction and maintenance workers are still compelled to work in temperatures above 50°C, without emergency shutdowns or hardship pay. At the same time, in Siyadan Zanjan Steel, around 50 workers were denied entry to their workplace after protesting unpaid wages—an informal tactic to silence demands.
In the pension sector, recent changes indicate an increase in the years required for retirement—a move to cover the bankruptcy of pension funds at workers’ expense, while the real cause of the crisis lies in the government’s plundering of these funds.
Teachers are not spared either: in Ahvaz, educator Alireza Mordasi has been sentenced to death—twice—on national security charges. Reports indicate torture, denial of legal representation, and a complete absence of fair trial procedures—part of a system that brands any form of civil protest as “corruption on earth.”
Public services remain another site of pressure: protest gatherings in Mirjaveh, Khak-e Bijar, and Chahardangeh highlight how repeated power and water cuts, closed border crossings, and anti-livelihood policies have pushed people’s lives to the breaking point.
Even pro-government organizations, such as the Telecommunications Workers’ Association, have been forced to admit the worsening situation, warning about deteriorating supplementary insurance contracts and employers’ broken promises.
These reports once again make it clear: in the Islamic Republic, the lives of workers, the livelihoods of teachers, and the voices of protesting citizens hold no value. The only path out of this reality is through independent, nationwide, and united workers’ and wage-earners’ organization—to halt this machinery of repression, exploitation, and the destruction of life.
