{"id":12659,"date":"2018-11-15T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2018-11-15T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T22:07:53","slug":"iran-tabriz-on-strike-protests-in-other-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/11\/15\/iran-tabriz-on-strike-protests-in-other-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Tabriz on Strike, Protests in Other Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-tabriz-stores-strike-protests-other-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>, Bazaar store-owners in the city of Tabriz, northwest Iran, went on strike on Wednesday, November 14, protesting skyrocketing prices, lack of goods and a decreasing number of customers. Images from this major Iranian city indicate shops closed near \u201cSa\u2019at Square\u201d and Taleghani Avenue. Reports from other cities also showed shop-owners closing down and joining this nationwide strike movement, parallel to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strikes and protests\u00a0in other cities<\/a>\u00a0across the country including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teachers&#8217; 2nd day of strike<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12662 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Haft-Tappeh-SugarCane-Workers-Protests-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Haft-Tappeh-SugarCane-Workers-Protests-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Haft-Tappeh-SugarCane-Workers-Protests-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Haft-Tappeh-SugarCane-Workers-Protests.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In other reports, employees of the Haft Tappeh Sugar Mill Company in the city of Shush, Khuzestan Province (southwest Iran), rallied on Wednesday, continuing the tenth day of their ongoing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-sugar-cane-employees-strike-for-seven-days\">strike<\/a>\u00a0while chanting the following slogans:\u00a0\u201cDeath to oppressors, hail to workers\u201d and\u00a0\u201cShush locals, support us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These workers were also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TondarCanada\/status\/1063157722990948357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chanting slogans<\/a> calling on protesting employees of the Ahvaz Industrial Steel Group \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TondarCanada\/status\/1062776818837712896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also on strike<\/a> \u2013 to join their ranks and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4freedominiran2\/status\/1063180784813649920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unite<\/a> in these ongoing protests.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed Report of the Protests With More Photos &amp; Videos <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-tabriz-stores-strike-protests-other-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>According to reports, Bazaar store-owners in the city of Tabriz, northwest Iran, went on strike on Wednesday, November 14, protesting skyrocketing prices, lack of goods <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/11\/15\/iran-tabriz-on-strike-protests-in-other-cities\/\" title=\"Iran: Tabriz on Strike, Protests in Other Cities\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[433,5],"tags":[473,388,127,526,373,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12670,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions\/12670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}