Free Yaser Ahmadinejad!

Join the demonstration on Saturday 11 July from 12 noon, outside the Iranian Embassy, 16 Princes Gate, SW7 1PT.

Yaser Ahmadinejad, an oil industry militant worker, has been sentenced to 33 months in jail.

With the internet partially restored after 88 days, we received news that Yaser Ahmadinejad, a militant worker, has been sentenced to 33 months in jail.

In June 2024, while Iran’s blood-soaked regime was acting out its fake ‘presidential election’, thousands of skilled contract workers in the petrochemical industry went on strike. This was the only way they could improve their living standards. The strike kept growing, eventually involving over 20,000 workers from around 100 contractors.

Just before the strike started, Yaser Ahmadinejad, an Arkan Saless Drilling Company worker, recorded a short video message. In it, he respectfully voiced the contract workers’ basic demands. These included a call on the regime to pay the contract workers their approved 35% pay rise. (The contract workers have pay and conditions that are significantly worse than those of the National Iranian Oil Company’s official workers.)

Since then, Yaser Ahmadinejad has been sacked and accused of trumped-up charges that include propagandising against the Islamic Republic system, threatening behaviour and publishing lies. He has been arrested several times, including once again as the latest war started.

The Shahrokh Zamani Action Campaign strongly condemns the harassment of Yaser Ahmadinejad and all other labour activists in Iran. We demand that all fake charges against labour activists be dropped immediately and unconditionally, all sacked workers return to work, and all political prisoners be freed. We urge all trade unionists, socialists and other political activists to help us in defending the rights of all workers, political prisoners and social rights’ activists in Iran.

Shahrokh Zamani Action Campaign
2 June 2026