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On Monday Oct 8.2018 , merchants in several Iranian cities went on strike and refused to open for business in an extension of ongoing protests against the regime of Tehran. The strike, which was preplanned and widely distributed across social media channels, is in protest to increasing prices and high inflation rates. The protest movement comprises 25 of Iran’s major cities Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, commended the brave bazaar merchants and shopkeepers in Tehran and dozens of other Iranian cities who are on strike against the mullahs' corrupt regime. She said that the bazaar strike, coming...

Two people have been killed, eight injured and 145 arrested in renewed unrest among the Kurds of western Iran, the Interior Ministry has said. The ministry offered only vague details on the deaths and arrests in the town of Saqqez, which followed rioting and a gun battle elsewhere in Kurdish-dominated territories in July. Iranian officials deny the rash of unrest on the western borders is ethnically motivated, but Kurdish leaders disagree, saying Tehran's discrimination towards their people was fomenting discontent. Shots fired The Interior Ministry website named the dead men in Saqqez as Mohammad Shariati, a 55-year-old retired teacher,...

Saqqez (province of Kurdistan, Iran): The Regime has Turned the Hospitals into Prisons Iran Press News (english translation) Based on received reports from the city of Saqqez, on Thursday, huge protests organized by the families of political prisoners and recent protest detainees took place; the protestors gathered in front of the central prison of the city demanding the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners and the recently arrested protestors. According to all accounts, the number of injured continues to increase and while hospital beds in the two main hospitals of the city (Social Assurance Hospital and Khomeini Hospital) fill...