Strikes in Protest to Closure of Border Markets of Iran 2/26/2018 9:25:31 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print More than 68,000 porters work in the border provinces, of whom 16 to 18 thousand live in Piranshahr and Sardasht Iran Uprising- No. 87 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 d...

Crisis-riddled Iran Sees Opposition Elect New Secretary General As Iran  finds  itself engulfed in domestic and external turmoil, the opposition in-exile enjoys the prowess and cohesion to  elect  a new secretary general. A new administration in Washington has  been  ramping up the heat, punishing Tehran for  meddling  in other states’ affairs and advancing its ballistic missile drive. All the while Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has seen his representative  rejected  by two senior Shiite leaders in Iraq, the proxy war in  Yemen  going south and Tehran’s support to maintain Syria’s Bashar Assad in power eating up crucial resources. Internally, the Iranian people are stepping up their  protests  to significant scales. In now daily protests thousands of  investors  are demanding their savings from state-run institutions, and the city of Baneh in western Iran recently witnessed clashes as locals ...