Civil, social security and military pensioners, as well as working and retired teachers, have called for a nationwide gathering for ten o’clock in the morning on the 28th February. These gatherings will be held in Tehran in front of the Islamic parliament and in front of “the Program and Budget Organization” and in the provinces’ centres and in front of the Governorate. An important issue of these gatherings is the protest against poverty and very high prices. The retirees are a militant part of the society, whose livelihood and life have been constantly attacked by the ruling mafia, and with their protests, they have always played an important role in advancing radical and nationwide demands at the community level.
Full implementation of equalization and increase of salaries above the poverty line of 25 million toman a month, free health care and free education and having the right to housing, ending embezzlements and repayment of the government’s debt to pension funds, which is part of these robberies, and an end to the securitization of struggles and the right to organize and right to assemble and protest have been the declared demands of retirees in their gatherings and protests.
Organizations such as Iran’s Council of Retirees, Union of Retirees, Council of Retirees of the Social Security Organization (BASTA) are among the signatories of the charter of minimum demands of twenty organizations. A charter that is a platform for the unity of the people for a better life. In addition, pensioners emphasize the release of all political prisoners detained in the recent uprising.