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Iranian teachers demand better pay in nationwide strikes

The strikes come as the teachers accuse the government and parliament of failing them.
Iranian teachers

Furious Iranian teachers continued to hold sit-ins and strikes across the nation over a series of unaddressed demands, at the top of them a long-stalled bill to help them make ends meet.

The protests have gathered steam since last weekend as the teachers congregate in the thousands outside local Education Ministry offices in some 120 cities and towns, including even the conservative and clerical city of Qom, where they shouted slogans for decent salaries.

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