NCRI – Following Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Tabriz, Qazvin, and Ahwaz bazaar strikes, Kerman joined the rest of the strikers on Thursday.
Most of bazaar in the southern city of Kerman was closed yesterday. It was the latest in the string of protests beginning with added-value tax imposed on Iranian bazaars by the mullahs' regime a week ago.
NCRI – Following Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Tabriz, Qazvin, and Ahwaz bazaar strikes, Kerman joined the rest of the strikers on Thursday.
Most of bazaar in the southern city of Kerman was closed yesterday. It was the latest in the string of protests beginning with added-value tax imposed on Iranian bazaars by the mullahs' regime a week ago.
Isfahan bazaar was the first in the country to go on strike over the new regulation. The bazaars in other major Iranian cities followed suite.
Merchants went on strike over value added tax (VAT) regulations imposed by the mullahs' regime in Tehran, central city of Isfahan, southern city of Shiraz, holy city of Mashhad and Qazvin, some 170 km northwest of the capital.
On October 7, the fourth day of the strikes, more than 3,000 protesting shopkeepers closed down their businesses and marched to the governor's office in Isfahan.
The merchants demonstrated in Enqelab Square, Char-Baqe Abassi, Isfahan's main bazaar as well as Bahonar, Hendiha, Alameh, Masjed-Jame, Sabzeh-Meidan, Sepah and Qeysarieh bazaars as well as home appliances of Moshir Square, reported the state-run media.
Merchants of major cities such as Mashhad, Shiraz, Qazvin, Tabriz, Ahwaz and Tehran protested to the rule and the law barring them from "blocking the walkways outside shops."
The State Security Forces – suppressive mullahs' police — attacked the shopkeepers attempting to break up their strike in Qazvin.
