Iranian teachers demand better pay in nationwide strikes - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Dec 14, 2021

Iranian teachers — Iranian school children sit together in a classroom while mask-clad and distanced apart from each other on the first day of schools re-opening in the capital Tehran on September 5, 2020. — ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images

Public school teachers demonstrate in front of a ministry of education office on the first day of the new academic year in the West Bank city of Hebron September 2, 2006. Tens of thousands of Palestinian government employees went on strike in the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday in protest against unpaid salaries and the perceived failings of the Hamas-led government. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK) - RTR1GWVF

Palestinian teachers strike over pay dispute

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Iranian teachers take part in a rally asking for better pay in front of a Education Ministry building in Tehran May 2, 2007. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN) - RTR1P963

Iranian teachers protest Rouhani's budget

A correspondent in Tehran

A correspondent in Tehran

In Tehran, reporting on politics

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Iran rounds up teachers as protests gain momentum

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Tehran, IRAN: An Iranian girl gives her drawing to a teacher in the clasroom at Sizdah Abban school in north of Tehran 01 October 2006. Iranian students went back to school a week ago. US President George W. Bush signed into law yesterday a set of sanctions targeting foreign countries that continue nuclear cooperation with Iran and sell it advanced weaponry. The measure, passed by the Senate Saturday after clearing the House of Representatives a day earlier, came as Iran and the European Union are engaged

For Iranian teachers, another day, another rial

Mohammed Pourabdollah

Mohammed Pourabdollah