News Center_Iran is living amid a severe livelihood deterioration and a stifling economic crisis, which has ignited a wide wave of labor protests in various cities, where labor unions and retirees have taken to the streets to denounce rising prices.

Labor protests have renewed in Iran, as retirees and social security beneficiaries, alongside retirees from the steel and iron sectors, organized wide marches that included the capital, Tehran, and cities such as Shush, Ahvaz, Rasht, and Isfahan, to denounce the deterioration of living and health conditions.

Participants gathered in front of buildings and headquarters of social security and the cities, demanding an increase in pensions to keep pace with inflation and the high cost of living, the full application of the principle of proportionality in salaries, the payment of arrears and government debts owed to the institution, as well as improving medical care services.

The demonstrations went beyond the economic dimension to take on a rights and political character, as protesters in Tehran and Shush chanted slogans rejecting death sentences and demanding freedom and justice, while protesters in Ahvaz and Rasht focused on demanding the immediate release of detained protesters in prisons, alongside slogans denouncing administrative corruption and the unjustified rise in prices.

These marches came as a continuation of the ongoing protests organized by retirees in previous weeks. A week ago, social security retirees gathered in Tehran, Shush, Kermanshah, Ahvaz, and Rasht, while steel sector retirees gathered in Isfahan.

The slogans raised in the protests showed a remarkable shift in the retirees' movement, as it was no longer limited to traditional livelihood and union demands such as pensions and medical care, but extended to include broader social and judicial dimensions, manifested in chanting against death sentences and demanding the release of prisoners.