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Iran: 1,500 teachers in Kurdistan, were
given their jobs back
7.3.2007
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March 7, 2007
Tehran, 6 March, -- Thousands of teachers staged a
rally on Tuesday in front of the Majlis, the Iranian
parliament, in Tehran asking Iranian education
minister Mahmoud Farshidi to step down, their
salaries to be raised and that colleagues fired for
political reasons be reinstated. The protest, the
second in just a week by teachers, was called by 30
teachers' unions. Last Saturday, an estimated 50,000
professors protested, threatening to block mid-term
exams and to strike until their fired colleagues, as
many as 1,500 only in Kurdistan, were given their
jobs back.
Iranian authorities are openly worried about the
wave of protests also by workers in other
professional sectors.
In an editorial on its mouthpiece, the magazine 'Sobhe
Sadegh', the Revolutionary Guard Pasdaran wrote that
"apparently someone is exploiting social discontent
to undermine society and cause a crisis." According
to the Pasdaran, "the teachers' protests, the
strikes by labour workers, the students' dissent
along with international pressure on the nuclear
issue, the explosions in Baluchistan [recent
violence in the southeast province blamed on
separatist groups], ethnic strife, allegations of
government in-fighting and the news of an alleged
illness of [Iran's supreme leader Ali] Khamenei are
all part of a strategy to hit the Islamic Republic."
On Tuesday, a group of workers with the furniture
factory Taleghani who have not been paid for the
past seven months and workers with electronics
industry Damavand, who have not received a salary
for the past 15 months, also staged rallies in front
of parliament.
Many protests have also been taking place in Tehran
universities including Shahre Kurd, Shahroud and
Shiraz.
In the Amir Kabir university, where Iranian
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was publicly
challenged for the first time last December by a
group of students, members of the Islamic
association of students clashed with university
guards who were trying to prevent them from
participating in a rally of solidarity towards 33
women's rights activists arrested on Sunday.
All students' associations in Iran had been notified
by university authorities after the arrests that
they would not be allowed to organise any rally or
university meeting on feminism or women's rights
before International Women's Day on 8 March.
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Îranę or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatę
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
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