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IRANIAN campaigners are reporting that there have been widespread protests of nursing staff in Iran over the last two weeks.
The Campaign for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) says protests have taken place at around 50 hospitals since early August.
The protests have called for more action to be taken by authorities over the soaring cost of living in Iran and the low wages, insecure employment and poor working conditions experienced by health workers.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
