Iranian Security Forces Beat, Arrest Teachers at Tehran Protest

Organizers of a teachers’ protest in the Iranian capital, Tehran, say security forces have violently broken up their rally, beating up some of the demonstrators and arresting at least six of them.

Dozens of retired and practicing teachers attended Thursday’s protest outside the Iranian government’s planning and budget organization building in Tehran. It was one of several rallies around the country organized by the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations to protest what it says are poor salaries for teachers and insufficient funding of the public education system as a whole.

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