Reported by PMOI/MEK
Sept.14, 218 – Following the execution of three Iranian Kurdish political prisoners, Ramin Hossein Panahi, Loghman Moradi, and Zaniar Moradi, merchants in several Iranian cities went on strike and closed their shops in protest to the brutality of the Iranian regime.
The cities where merchants have gone on strike are from the provinces of Kermanshah, Kurdistan and Western Azerbaijan, and include Mahabad, Sanandaj, Baneh, Kermanshah, Orumiyeh, Piranshahr, Bukan, Marivan, Oshnavieh, Saqqez, Gukan Tapeh, Kamiaran and Paveh
The Iranian regime has tried to force merchants to open their shops through threats and intimidation, but to no effect.