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Showdown Coming Between Iran's Workers and the Mullahs
(New York Post) Amir Taheri - The stage is being set for a showdown between Iran's workers and the Khomeinist establishment. In Qazvin, a major industrial center, striking workers have shut pharmaceutical, textile and ceramic factories. In Golestan, thousands of coal miners are on strike. In the port cities of Bandar Abbas, Bushehr and Khorramshahr, striking truck drivers have provoked massive congestion in unloading imports. A nationwide strike by workers and managers of the state-owned Wheat Agency may threaten the country with a bread shortage. Workers' action is also reported from the Haft-Tapeh sugar-cane industry, the steel-pipe company in Ahvaz, and the petrochemical complex in Mahshahr.