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A striking farmer shows pellet wounds from clashes with police last week. Tudeh Party international secretary Navid Shomali says there have been nearly 500 mass industrial actions in Iran in recent months

IRANIAN rail workers are occupying a railway building in the north-western city of Tabriz during strike action demanding the payment of withheld wages and union recognition.

Maintenance workers in Azerbaijan province, who have not been paid since April, refused to start work on Thursday, having stayed in the railway’s offices overnight. 

They continued their protest yesterday against non-payment of wages, the lowering of the skill index rating for their work and a lack of effective mechanisms to respond to their workplace concerns and demands.  

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