
Iran: Protest and Strikes Continue
By: Hassan. Mahmoudi After World War I the 850-mile Iran's National railroad was constructed. The railway building project started in 1927 and completed in 1938, the railroad went through high mountains, and hostile desert regions of the country and linked southern and northern Iran, For the first time the northern agricultural lands and the Caspian Sea ports were linked to ports and oilfields in the south. in Iran, Railway work is a very hard job. Railroad workers ranged from unskilled freight... Читать дальше...