On Sunday, August 2, Social Security retirees gathered in front of the Social Security building in several cities. These gatherings were held in the cities of Shush, Karkheh, Haft Tappeh, Ahvaz, Rasht and Kermanshah. In Rasht, the pensioners had created a remarkable and spectacular scene of protest by singing the song "We will not live life under the burden of oppression" along with clippings, and had drawn people's attention.
Retired people's protest is against the daily worsening of their living conditions, the Supreme Labor Council's wage resolution and the so-called "Seventh Development Program" plan, which is an attack by the government on their livelihood and the entire society. Also they are protesting against vast embezzlement and theft by the authorities. Complete implementation of equalization of salaries and increase of salaries above the poverty line, which has now exceeded thirty million tomans per month (approx. $700), and free treatment and ending thefts from the pensioners' fund and returning the stolen money to this fund are the urgent demands of these retirees.
In these gatherings, retirees chanted slogans: "we can get our rights, only by coming out to the street", "under the burden of inflation, people's backs are broken & quot;, & quot;protest, protest against poverty and corruption".
On June 30 too, at the same time as the Raisi’s visit to Kerman province, a significant number of retirees and employees of the copper industry once again held a protest rally in front of the entrance door of Sarcheshemeh copper complex in protest against the handing over of the copper pensioners' fund to the Ministry of Welfare and under –table- thefts. . In this gathering, one of the protesting women said, in her speech, that we will not move from this place until this issue is resolved. Her words were applauded by the crowd.
Retirees of the Copper Fund have repeatedly have demanded the annulment of the decision of the "Supreme Welfare Council" regarding the annexation of the Copper Retirement Fund Institute to the Ministry of Welfare, by the government body known as the & quot; Administrative Court of Justice".
Right now in Iran, different sections of retirees are protesting and have turned different days of the week into fixed days of their regular protests.