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Protest by victims of Pardis housing fraud (November 8, 2025)
On November 8, 2025, a significant wave of protests erupted across Iran, exposing the deep fractures within a regime unable to meet the most basic needs of its people. From the capital, Tehran, to cities like Kermanshah and Yasuj, diverse segments of society—including bank retirees, municipal workers, nurses, and defrauded homebuyers—took to the streets in a unified display of anger against systemic corruption and economic collapse. The day’s events paint a stark picture of a state whose core functions are crumbling, leaving its citizens with no recourse but to protest.
The Pillars of the State are Crumbling
The regime’s inability to provide for its own current and former employees was on full display in Tehran, where employees and retirees of Bank Mellat held a major protest. Their powerful chants cut through the city’s noise, declaring, “Promises are enough, our tables are empty!” and “Retirees will die but not accept humiliation!” The protest highlighted a severe crisis within the banks’ pension fund, a clear indicator of the regime’s financial insolvency and its abandonment of those who served the state for decades.
November 8—Tehran, Iran
Employees and retirees of Bank Mellat rallied after traveling from cities nationwide, demanding fair pensions and overdue benefits. They declared they will not remain silent in the face of neglect and injustice.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/K5aJdTnLiH
— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 8, 2025
This crisis is not confined to the financial sector. Hundreds of kilometers away in western Iran, municipal machinery drivers in Kermanshah went on strike and gathered in front of the provincial governor’s office. Their grievance was simple and damning: they had not been paid for four months. The drivers questioned how they could trust contractors to pay future wages, framing their plight as the result of a city and a populace subjected to “years of plunder and mismanagement.”
Simultaneously, in Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, nurses and medical staff from city hospitals protested outside the governor’s office. They demanded months of unpaid bonuses and other overdue benefits, revealing that even the nation’s essential healthcare workers are being neglected amidst the regime’s widespread mismanagement.
November 8—Kermanshah, western Iran
Municipal heavy machinery drivers rallied and went on strike over four months of unpaid wages, demanding guaranteed payment and an end to corruption and mismanagement draining public resources.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/sunGQQa2Zx
— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 8, 2025
A System Built on Fraud
Beyond its failure to pay its workers, the regime’s complicity in large-scale fraud has robbed ordinary Iranians of their life savings. In a particularly egregious case, victims of a massive housing scam in Pardis, a city near Tehran, assembled outside the Judiciary’s headquarters, demanding justice. These citizens had pre-purchased homes in a large housing project, only to discover that some units were sold to multiple buyers while others were never built at all.
The most damning detail is the direct role of a state institution. The victims reported that before their purchase, a government engineering company under the Ministry of Housing had assured them that the developers were trustworthy. This state-sanctioned endorsement enabled a fraud that has left approximately 400 families ruined. Many had sold their existing homes, land, and gold to afford the down payment and are now forced into tenancy or have returned to their villages in poverty.
November 8—Tehran, Iran
Victims of the Pardis Phase 8 housing fraud rallied outside the Judiciary headquarters, demanding action and return of their lost savings. Many lost homes and assets after houses were sold to multiple buyers or never built.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/idopg8ZpzC
— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 8, 2025
This pattern of state-linked consumer fraud was echoed in another protest in Tehran on the same day. Customers of the Farda Motor company, who had pre-paid for vehicles, gathered outside the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Mines. They accused officials of months of empty promises and inaction, their frustration summed up in the declaration, “There is no one to answer, only silence and injustice!”
The events of November 8, 2025, are more than a collection of isolated grievances; they are a national indictment of a corrupt and incompetent regime. From bank pensioners in Tehran to unpaid municipal drivers in Kermanshah, and from defrauded families to neglected nurses, the Iranian people share a common sense of betrayal by a ruling system that is both incapable of governance and actively preys upon its citizens.
November 8—Tehran, Iran
Pre-purchasers of state-backed Farda Motor vehicles rallied outside the Ministry of Industry, protesting months of unfulfilled delivery promises. They demand action instead of repeated empty assurances.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/YHJmXsjwhl
— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 8, 2025
Whether the cry is “our tables are empty” from a retired banker or “silence and injustice” from a defrauded citizen, the underlying message is identical: the Iranian people have lost all faith in the existing system. The increasing frequency of these protests across all sectors of society signals a profound shift. The demand is no longer for piecemeal reforms, but for regime change.