The Nurses’ Protest Movement

Yesterday, the dedicated nurses of hospitals in Mashhad and Yazd once again took to the streets, protesting injustice, discrimination, and unbearable living conditions.

For months now, these tireless professionals—among the most hardworking in society—have joined people across various cities in Iran, raising their voices in a determined call for their rights. The full extent of the pressure on nurses becomes evident when looking at statistics from the regime’s officials: Iran’s nurse-to-population ratio has dropped to half the global standard.[1] This shortage places an overwhelming burden on the remaining nurses, who, amid harsh conditions and deprived of basic wages and benefits, are compelled to care for a growing number of patients with inadequate staffing.

This is why Iranian nurses see resistance against the regime, alongside increased protests and strikes, as the only path forward.

Indeed, for various sectors to reclaim their rights, the Iranian people and Resistance must overthrow the corrupt and criminal rule of the mullahs. Only then, in a liberated Iran, will “justice and equal opportunities in employment, business, and an open market for all, along with the fulfillment of rights for workers, farmers, nurses, employees, educators, and retirees,”[2] be truly realized.