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| Mashhad shoe Bazaar on strike |
Report by
PMOI/MEK
Iran, August
13, 2018 - Store makers in the religious city of Mashhad shopping centers
took to the streets today, protesting skyrocketing prices.
Protesters
in Monday’s demonstration are seen chanting:
“Death to
high prices”
"Death
to the Dictator"
“Everyone
has risen; cowards are still home”
These
brave protesters in the streets were seen encouraging their colleagues to join
their ranks and close their shops.
Sources
say the rally continued in the city’s Amel Avenue despite a large number of
security dispatched to the site.
The
Mashhad bazaar strike follows two days of similar protests in Tehran
where
demonstrators were seen chanting “Death to the dictator.”
"The
shopkeepers in the shoe market in Vahid, Azam and Kamali malls on Tehran's
15th Khordad Avenue continued their strike for the second day on Sunday.
The
strike began on Saturday in protest at the unprecedented cost of raw materials
for shoe production. Shopkeepers in Sepahsalar market, Mousavi market and
Manouchehr Khani market also joined the shoemakers’ strike.
On
Sunday, the shopkeepers in these markets rallied and chanted “Zealous
marketers, Support! Support!”, “Down with high costs”, and “Death to the
Dictator”. The protest continued despite the fact that the intelligence agents
were putting the shopkeepers under great pressure to prevent them from closing
their shops.
At the
same time500 retired workers from the Naznakh and Farnakh spinning factory in
Qazvin, gathered in front of Qazvin governorate. The regime fails to pay their
wage claims even ten years after their retirement.
In
Naghadeh, following the refusal of government authorities to pay farmers'
claims, the sugar beet farmers took control of the Azarqand factory since four
days ago. They took control of the factory, expelled the factory officials, and
shut down the factory on August 8th in protest at nonpayment of their
claims for one year.
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