Some 300,000 Iranian Baha is face official discrimination, a complete lack of property rights, arbitrary detention, a ban on university admission, heavy employment restrictions, and prohibitions on teaching their faith and practicing their religion communally. According to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha is of the United States, over 200 Baha is have been executed since 1979. The Iranian Kurdish community also faces state-sanctioned discrimination. There are no independent labor unions. The government-controlled Worker s House is the only legal federation.
Collective bargaining is nonexistent.
Private sector strikes are infrequent and risk being disbanded by the militant Revolutionary Guards. Montazeri fell out of favor for questioning Khamenei s legitimacy as supreme leader.