A 'worker activist' or an advisor to the Islamic Republic?

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 Abbas Goya - April 17, 2026

Behrooz Farahani:“They [the Islamic Republic] should revive the same previous complexes with the same trades that existed in them. A war economy situation should be declared, and the government should roll up its sleeves, and this will, in fact, rejuvenate the existing constructions and the infrastructure that has been destroyed. How can Iran possibly stand on its own feet without petrochemicals, without the Mobarakeh steel plants, and without companies producing urea and chemical fertilizers?”

Response: Yes, it is possible, Farahani, Mr advisor to the Islamic Republic.

Workers in Iran, despite the very existence of oil, petrochemicals, Mobarakeh steel, and fertilizer industries, have been driven into poverty. Today, many of them live far below the poverty line; grave-sleeping, street-sleeping, car-sleeping, homelessness, and marginalization have become their reality.

What can keep workers on their feet is neither the reconstruction of production sectors nor the existence of so-called “infrastructural” companies; neither oil, nor petrochemicals, nor steel, nor chemical fertilizers. What improves their lives is an end to exploitation.

Farahani, you are not the only one who cares for Iran and its “infrastructure.” The government you advise shares the exact same concerns—because “Iran” is nothing but a resource for filling its own pockets.

The difference between you and the Islamic Republic’s structure is that, under the guise of a “labor activist,” you appropriate that title to advise the very government that plunders workers’ wages and reproduces their savage exploitation.

* [Source](https://www.radiofarda.com/a/job-workers-iran-impact-war-interview-behrooz-farahani/33736347.html)


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