Iranian Teachers Face Poverty Wages and Intensified Repression

Iranian Teachers Face Poverty Wages and Intensified Repression

As the new academic year begins in September 2025, teachers across Iran return to classrooms under conditions that strip them of the minimum standards of a dignified life. They face poverty wages, precarious employment, and the denial of the right to organize independent unions. At the same time, the ruling regime continues to silence teacher activists through arbitrary arrests, fabricated charges, and heavy prison sentences. For Iran’s teachers…