Popular protests, especially by the youth and workers against crackdown measures by Iranian regime agents under the bogus pretext of eating during the fasting hours of Ramadan have increased in Tehran and other cities.
Various Tehran neighborhoods have witnessed people clashing with repressive agents.
On Tuesday, June 23rd at around 12 noon a number of State Security Forces entered various stores during lunch hours, harassing a number of the storeowners. The storeowners all protested and forced the repressive agents to leave the area.
On Monday, June 22nd, at around 11:30 am regime agents fined a bakery for being open during fasting hours. This raised protests by various people, the owner and workers of the bakery, leading to clashes and the bakery restarting its work after the agents left.
On Monday, June 22 Tehran’s Zartosht Avenue was the scene of two youths clashing with three State Security Force agents that were harassing them.
On Monday, June 22 at 1 pm Tehran’s Shahr-e Park regime agents began harassing an old man in one scene and a 25-30 year old man in another under the pretext of eating during fasting hours. The agents intended to arrest these two individuals but youths in the area protested and forced them to flee despite the fact that a number of other agents had rushed to their support.
On Sunday, June 21, in Tehran’s Abureyhan Avenue two Bassij agents began harassing a store owner and intended to force a sandwich store to close down. However, the store owner and his friends delivered a severe beating to the Bassij agents.
In Aslaviye on Monday, June 22 workers of the Jam Petrochemical Plan protested being forced to fast during the month of Ramadan. They staged a rally outside the director’s office of this petrochemical complex and demanded the regime’s supervisors expelled for forcing them to fast.
In Aslaviye various restaurant owners and workers of the South Pars area protested the fact that their restaurants were closed down under the pretext of Ramadan.
Bushehr Province also witnessed protests by the Bidkhun power plant workers demanding to not be forced to fast during the hot summer conditions and continue their work at the same time.
