Workers across the globe are celebrating #LabourDay. Yet there is no celebrating in #Iran as workers' paychecks are delayed, resulting in their families' continued suffering.MAYDAY
May 1 Video shows #MayDay rally in Tehran outside the regime's parliament.
#LabourDay in #Iran
May 1
Video shows #MayDay rally in Tehran outside the regime's parliament. pic.twitter.com/ILbJMU2zEG— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) May 1, 2018
Video shows people chanting anti-government slogans even at the regime's own #MayDay rally in Tehran.
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"Death to oppressors, hail to workers"
#LabourDay in #Iran
Video shows people chanting anti-government slogans even at the regime's own #MayDay rally in Tehran.
"Death to oppressors, hail to workers" pic.twitter.com/IrzeRhsF61— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) May 1, 2018
Video shows protesters at Tehran's #MayDay chanting slogans demanding the release of detained workers.
#LabourDay in #Iran
Video shows protesters at Tehran's #MayDay chanting slogans demanding the release of detained workers. pic.twitter.com/gcTEuXiq1G— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) May 1, 2018
Reports indicate the US dollar is selling (on the black market) at over 60,000 rials. Economic crisis escalating as domestic & international dilemmas pile up for the ruling regime.
Video shows brave female protesters at Tehran's #MayDay rally explaining how they were able to help a number of women arrested by authorities escape. People are overcoming their fears.
#LabourDay in #Iran
Video shows brave female protesters at Tehran's #MayDay rally explaining how they were able to help a number of women arrested by authorities escape.
People are overcoming their fears. pic.twitter.com/NKvKKtwWk2— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi)
#LabourDay in Yazd, central #Iran
Video shows a large #MayDay march in the city's Modares Boulevard.
Protesters are chanting:
"Workers are aware & despite exploitation" pic.twitter.com/5AbF5xQsi3— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) May 1, 2018
Video shows a large #MayDay march in the city's Modares Boulevard. Protesters are chanting:
"Workers are aware & despite exploitation"
#LabourDay in Yazd, central #Iran
Video shows a large #MayDay march in the city's Modares Boulevard.
Protesters are chanting:
"Workers are aware & despite exploitation" pic.twitter.com/5AbF5xQsi3— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) May 1, 2018
Interesting how #Iran's regime began filtering Telegram, a popular messaging app used by over 40 million users inside the country, just one day before scheduled #MayDay rallies.
bans-popular-telegram-messaging-app-on-the-eve-of-labor-day … Graphiti shows protesters demanding an end to government surveillance measures.
#LaborDay
Authorities use pepper spray to disperse a protesting crowd of investors demanding their savings back from the state-run Alborz Credit Institute in Karaj, W of Tehran #Iran.#MayDay pic.twitter.com/DosmHhMNxC— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) May 1, 2018*********************************
PER-Heshmat Alavi************************************Activists in #Iran show footage of children who should be in school but are working in the streets to help their families make ends.
This is the result of a country being ruled by mullahs for 40 years.
All the while, Tehran is spending billions in Syria, Yemen, Iraq & Lebanon... pic.twitter.com/rQl6xJkUIe— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) May 1, 2018
