Tehran Bus Drivers Make Partial Strike Despite Repression [Iran]
December 27, 2005, 1:04 am |
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SMCCDI (Information Service)
December 25, 2005
Hundreds of the Greater Tehran’s collective bus drivers made a partial strike, today, despite official warnings and the increase of repression at their terminals. The drivers were intending to protest against their poor conditions and the arrest of several of their colleagues.
Security forces were distpatched in the capital’s main avenues, especially in Vali-e-Asr, where several bus drivers had created road blocks. These drivers were soon attacked and arrested. Their buses were driven back by militiamen to the terminals.
Still the partial strike was able to create serious problems for the regime and the Tehran’s City Council, as, it forced thousands of daily users to walk or hitch rides in private cars. The strike also brought traffic in central Tehran to a halt with many commuters wandering in the streets in search of taxis to go to work.
Tehran’s bus drivers have issued a warning to the Islamic regime for the immediate release of all their arrested colleagues. Failure to do so would result in the continuation of the strike.
Oppostion groups are looking to ways to provide the necessary financial assistance to the drivers for the continuation and increase of the protest action. Such support will create a daily chaos for the Islamic leadership, as most residents are supportive of strikers, and will force the Islamic regime to use hundreds of its un-experienced militiamen as drivers instead of using them for protecting its illegitimate power.
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