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2024-12-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Mass strikes erupt in Iran as retailers, shopkeepers, and business owners in Tehran stop working to protest the Islamic regime's failed economic policies

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Posted by Fred 2024-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Ima thinkin 2025 is gonna be a real interesting year!

Posted by Oregon Dave 2024-12-30 00:40|| 2024-12-30 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Mass killings to follow?

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-12-30 10:29|| 2024-12-30 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Assad's defeat in Syria, which was propped up by Iran, make the mullahs look weak.

The Iranian people no longer afraid of the regime. This strike could be the beginning of the end for the mullahs.

Posted by Muggsy and Company2746 2024-12-30 12:24|| 2024-12-30 12:24|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ OR a massive oppressive crackdown tyranny

Posted by Frank G 2024-12-30 12:50|| 2024-12-30 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Press release:

Today, Sunday, December 29, 2024, large sections of Tehran’s bazaar went on strike in protest against crippling price hikes and skyrocketing currency rates. They organized a protest march, urging other merchants to join the strike.

The strike and protest began in the Shoemakers’ Bazaar and quickly spread to the Rasteh Bazaar, Small Charsu, the Fabric Sellers’ Bazaar, Bagh Sepahsalar, Seyyed Vali Passage, Hammam Chal Passage, and the Coppersmiths’ Bazaar. Shortly afterward, the fabric sellers in Abbasabad Passage, Sepah Bazaar, and Mellat Passage also joined the strike. Protesters chanted: “Courageous merchants, support, support!” “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, shut it down, shut it down!” and “You can’t do business with an 80,000 toman dollar!”

In a statement, the merchants cited several reasons for their strike, including the shortage of raw materials due to soaring currency rates, severe economic stagnation caused by exorbitant prices, lack of liquidity in the market, and heavy taxes.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), praised the protesting and striking merchants. She stated that these protests are a significant part of the broader and growing wave of social unrest, including actions by workers, laborers, nurses, and retirees. The vast majority of Iran’s people, impoverished by the plundering, oppressive, and warmongering policies of the criminal clerical regime, face relentless inflation, declining purchasing power, power outages, and disastrous living conditions. This regime of murderers, destroyers of the land and its people, will undoubtedly be overthrown by the uprising and resistance of the people.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

29 December 2024

It seems more an emotional outburst than something effective…

Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-30 21:05|| 2024-12-30 21:05|| Front Page Top

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