Many shops were closed in Iran today, in the first part of a three-day general strike called by social and political organizations to protest the suppression of a wave of protests in the country. Videos posted on social media show closed shops in major Iranian cities. In Tehran, some shops face fines if they close, but many shops are still closed. Kurdish human rights group Hengaw has announced that 19 cities in the east of the country have joined the nationwide strike, dubbed 14-15-16 after the days of the Persian calendar, urging shopkeepers not to open and avoid citizenship Shopping.
Iran does not give up the veil and threatens to freeze accounts
“The veil will return to cover the heads of women,” but those who transgress will no longer be punished by the “vice patrols.” The nearly three-month anti-government protest in Iran hasn’t persuaded the ayatollahs’ regime to challenge the headscarf requirement, but the Islamic Republic is on the verge of reducing the headscarf requirement, according to announcements, at least according to the control methods in the law , obliging women to cover themselves. One of the penalties for those who don’t obey the law will be the suspension of bank accounts, “not immediately, but after SMS alerts and other warnings,” announced Hossein Jalali, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s Culture Committee, against the yesterday’s rant about girls not wearing the veil is effectively admitting an increasingly widespread phenomenon, at least in some neighborhoods of Tehran, not just during the street demonstrations of recent months, during which many have defied the ban.