احرار ایران

Strikes in Protest to Closure of Border Markets of Iran Monday, 26 February 2018 20:11 Iran Uprising- No. 87 Call for general solidarity The strike by marketers and shopkeepers in the Iranian Kurdistan cities of Baneh and Piranshahr, who had gone on strike on Saturday February 24 in protest of closing border markets, continued on Monday for the third day. Marketers and shopkeepers in Sardasht also joined the strike on Monday, February 26, and refused to open their shops. The mullahs’ regime, in fear of spreading the strike to other strata of the population, deployed a large number of riot guards, intelligence agents and plainclothes agents in different parts of these cities. The people of Kurdistan who have no grounds for employment, because of the destruction of the country's industries and economy, have chosen the very difficult and dangerous work of cross-border porter as their job to make a living. According to some reports, more than 68,000 porters work in the border provinc...