Iran : Teachers' Strike in 41 Cities

By: Hassan.Mahmoudi

Monday, March 4, 2019 – a strike by female teachers at Amir Kabir Technical High School in Khomeynishahr city in Isfahan (central Iran)

The teaching staff began a three-day strike on Sunday, February 3, in about 40 cities across Iran, refraining from going to classrooms and gathering in the teachers’ room.

Teachers protest against uncertain living conditions, wages below the poverty line, wage inequalities, wage arrears, an ineffective insurance system, the absence of freedom of association, the lack of free education, and also the incarceration of teacher trade unionists.

On the first day of the strike, the movement spread to 41 cities in 18 provinces of Iran. This movement took place in Tehran, in central provinces (Alborz, Isfahan, Yazd, and Qazvin), northeastern provinces (Khorasan-e Razavi and southern Khorasan), northwestern provinces (western Azerbaijan), East Azerbaijan, Zanjan and Kurdistan), North (Mazandaran and Hamedan), West (Kermanshah and Lorestan), Southwest (Khuzistan), South (Fars) and Southeast (Sistan and Balochistan).

This movement continued on Monday, March 4 in the same provinces.

Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Iranian Resistance (CNRI), supported the movement in a message posted on her Twitter account and called on high school students and young Iranians to support teachers’ demands.

Tehran – Taleghani High School

Karaj (capital of Alborz province) – Efat High School

Esfahan – Saremieh High School for the Gifted

Yazd (capital of the homonymous province) – Sadoughi High School

Qazvin (capital of the homonymous province) – Enghelab High School 

Mashhad (capital of Khorasan-e Razavi province) – 5th District High School

Torbat-e heydarieh (Khorasan-e Razavi province) – Khalij-e Fars Technical High School

Tabriz (capital of East Azerbaijan province) – Bagher-ol-oloum High School

Sanandaj (capital of Kurdistan province) – Patoumah High School

Sari (capital of the province of Mazandéran) – Sari Technical High School

Babol (Mazandéran province) – Amirkala County – Chafizadeh Technical High School

Chiraz (capital of the province of Fars) – Qasr-e Qomcheh High School

Khorramabad (capital of Lorestan province) – Amir Kabir Technical High School

Iran Shahr (Sistan and Balochistan province) – Mandegar High School