Bazaar strike -2
NCRI – The clerical regime launched a violent raid on striking merchants in the Tehran Bazaar on Wednesday. As a result, Haji Kashani, a veteran Bazaar merchant was killed.
On Wednesday, the second day of the strike in the Tehran Bazaar, the clerical regime tried to put an end to the strike and force merchants to open up their shops by using some of its agents and profiteering merchants. But the merchants on strike resisted and chanted "down with Khamenei," and "down with Ahmadinejad."
The regime's plain-clothes agents and State Security Forces attacked the merchants, arresting a number of them and destroying some of the shops. During this raid, in the garment Bazaar, Haji Kashani, a veteran merchant was seriously wounded as a result of being stabbed with a knife. He lost his life a few hours later in the hospital.
In order to prevent the spread of the strike, the clerical regime dispatched a large number of its agents to the Bazaar and prevented people from entering the Bazaar.
Pamenar and 15 Khordad avenues were filled with suppressive forces. Subsequently the shopkeepers in the area shut their shops and joined the strike.
The clerical regime has blocked all avenues leading to theBazaar and is preventing any traffic to the Bazaar and nearby streets.
Merchants in Tabriz and Isfahan Bazaars joined the strike by Tehran Bazaaris on Wednesday.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 7, 2010
