Protesting workers spend the night in the street in front of the presidential offices

Eid-Ali Karimi, the workers representative from Ghazvin said: “On Tuesday, February 6th, 350 workers from the Pousheeneh-Baaft factory spent the night in front of the presidential offices.”

In an interview with the regime-run news agency, ILNA, Karimi said: “The workers of Pousheeneh-Baaft have come back, from Ghazvin to Tehran to protest in front of the presidential office because the president promised to resolve our problems and help us resume work. So far this has not come to fruition; therefore we have decided to resume our protests in front of various governmental organizations and buildings.”

He emphasized that these workers had faced hardship and were in limbo for an entire year and did not have the means to endure any more mismanagement and corruption under privatization. He added: “Before all this, when the president visited Ghazvin province and investigated the problems promises were made to resolve the situation so that the ownership of the company could be returned from the private sector to the state retirement fund. These workers will remain in Tehran until there is a resolution to the problems and the factory resumes work.”