TEHRAN, Jan 9 — Civil servants in one of Iran’s most powerful sectors, the judiciary, held rare demonstrations today against the government’s refusal to increase their pay.
Ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi, who assumed his post in August, had proposed a salary hike in the last weeks of his previous job as judicial chief.Hit by severe economic sanctions imposed since 2018 by the United States, Iran has seen its inflation rate surge to close to 60 per cent., a newspaper representing the reformist viewpoint, today published video of a protest by hundreds of men and women in front of parliament in Tehran.
The demonstrators held up signs with slogans declaring that “justice workers are unable to support themselves” and decrying the “hypocrisy of the government and parliament”. Meysam Latifi, head of the Administrative and Recruitment Affairs Organisation, angered judiciary employees with his remarks in parliament on Wednesday, when the increase was rejected.
“We are concerned about the demand to raise judicial salaries because that would lead to the same thing at other agencies,” he said. — AFP
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