Iranian Truck Drivers Stretch Strike into 7th Day

[Right_in_Virginia]

Iranian Truck Drivers Stretch Strike into 7th Day
VOA, May 29, 2018, Michael Lipin

A strike by Iranian truck drivers angered about rising business costs has stretched into a seventh day, indicating many truckers are dissatisfied with Iranian government offers to address their grievances.  Images verified by VOA Persian, dated Monday and sent by Iranians, show truck drivers gathering in support of the strike in three Iranian provinces – Fars, Kermanshah and Qazvin.

One video received by VOA Persian shows a convoy of truckers driving their vehicles slowly on a highway from the city of Kavar to Shiraz, capital of Fars province. At least 30 trucks can be seen passing by the shooter of the video clip, who says around 400 vehicles participated in the slow-drive protest. Many of the truckers in the convoy honked their horns in a display of excitement at the large turnout of vehicles.

A second clip shows a line of trucks parked on a highway in the Kermanshah provincial city of Kangavar, with dozens of striking drivers standing on the road and cheering as several more trucks drive by. The speaker in the video talks about how the strike is continuing despite Iranian officials saying it is over.

Iranian truckers began the strike on May 22 in the provinces of Fars, Hormozgan, Isfahan, Kerman, Khorasan Razavi, Lorestan and Qazvin, according to earlier images and messages sent to VOA Persian. Since then, the striking truckers have displayed signs complaining of stagnant wages as they face rising costs for insurance, road tolls, commissions, repairs and spare parts.


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[Right_in_Virginia]

Wow.  This takes some kind of special courage.  Good for them!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Heshmat Alavi ‏ -
While over 50 million people are living in poverty across the country, #Iran's regime is allocating 50 billion rials ($1.19 billion) to building a large mosque in Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Kermanshah, western #Iran Taxi drivers joining the truck drivers' nationwide strike, continuing into the 10th consecutive day on Thursday.

[Frank Cannon]

Heshmat Alavi ‏ -
While over 50 million people are living in poverty across the country, #Iran's regime is allocating 50 billion rials ($1.19 billion) to building a large mosque in Bandar Abbas, southern #Iran.

Good to see they found a use for all that Obama money.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Iran's economic problems are worsening, and rather than using that as leverage, the Europeans are trying to help that despicable regime stay in power.