ANALYSIS: Why Iran’s truckers strike is not an isolated incident Iran is faced with a second round of truckers’ strikes this year. It has spread to 290 cities in 31 provinces across the country. Last round of truckers’ strike was in late July and early August. The demands remain the same because the Iranian regime is offering them a bunch of empty promises. The regime wants the truckers to break their strike and it has made hundreds of arrests so far. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, the regime’s Chief Prosecutor General said on September 29th: “According to the information we have, in some routes, some of the cities, there are elements who are provoking some of the truckers, or possibly blocking them and creating problems for them. They are subject to the rules and regulations of banditry and the punishment of the bandits according to the law is very severe, sometimes resulting in the death penalty.” Around 240 strikers have been arrests according to human rights activists in ...

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