Iran - November 19, 2021
HUGE UPRISING FOR WATER NOW IN ISFAHAN
A huge mass demonstration is underway now in the city of Isfahan, capital city of the province also called Isfahan. Thousands and thousands took to the streets fighting to recover the water that was taken away from them by the Ayatollah, who are emptying river Zayandeh Rud, the main water supply in the province. This way the Ayatollah are leaving the peasants of that province without the chance of irrigation and the houses of workers without tap water.
The slogans are “Isfahan dies but does not humilliate”, “Raisi, this is your last warning”, “we will have our water rights, even if it costs our lives”, “the nation has never seen such injustice”, “water from Zayandeh Rud river is our inalienable right”, “give Zayandeh Rud river back, let Isfahan breathe”.
This massive demonstration happens in the 12th straight day of a protest that started being a peasant one, but expanded to all the workers and exploited in the city, affected directly by the water cuts. Isfahan is the third populated city, with around 2 million people living there.
The same thing happened in late July, in Khuzestan province, where the Ayatollah had started to dry the rivers Karkheh and Nissan that irrigate that province, which was responded by a huge uprising in the entire province, especially in its capital city Ahwaz, with recurrent demonstrations of thousands and thousands clashing with the repression forces, leaving martyrs and hundreds of political prisoners. In those moments, Iran was burning under fire of an oil strike that paralyzed the country and different sectors were joining in, as the sugarcane workers of Haft Tappeh.
However, these conflicts were isolated and eventually got partial agreements at most. Today, Isfahanrises and this uprising cannot remain isolated. It is needed to carry out a great nation-wide struggle to end with the theocratic murderous repressive regime that is making the workers pay the crisis, leaving them even without water.
The workers and peasants rebelled in Isfahan and all the Iranian exploited are the allies of the Syrian resistance. Both confront the Ayatollah, who massacre the Syrian masses and starve the Iranian masses. Defeat the Iranian Guard in Syria! Down with the regime of the Ayatollah!
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