{"id":9016,"date":"2010-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/9016-iran-gold-sellers-strike-enters-third-week"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:54:55","slug":"iran-gold-sellers-strike-enters-third-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-gold-sellers-strike-enters-third-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran gold sellers strike enters third week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"bazar45\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-35950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/10\/bazar45.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bazar45\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" align=\"right\" \/>NCRI \u2013 A strike by gold sellers in Iran has spread throughout the country and entered its \u200ethird straight week on Wednesday with merchants declaring that they will back down the \u200efulfillment of their demands.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Fort the past fourteen days, Iranian gold and jewelry merchants have launched a strike to \u200eprotest a proposed plan by the regime to raise taxes.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>The clerical regime has in turn resorted to threats and intimidations, in one case sending \u200eits agents to the gold merchant union to frighten sellers into ending the strike, and in \u200eother cases by plastering notices on walls around the Tehran Bazaar calling for the \u200eopening of the stores.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>The merchants have said that they will not end their strike unless the regime backs down \u200efrom plans to raise the value-added tax by three percent.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>According to obtained reports, the grand bazaar at Tehran\u2019s Sabzeh Meydan remained \u200eclosed on Tuesday with merchants resisting the regime\u2019s intimidation tactics.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Other reports indicate that the gold bazaar in Kermanshah is also shut down. On Tuesday, \u200eat around 4 PM local time, plainclothes agents violently attacked gold merchants at the \u200ewestern city\u2019s grand bazaar, breaking shutters to force an end to the strike.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>But, according to these reports, gold sellers resisted the attack and clashed with the \u200eregime\u2019s agents. Several young gold sellers are said to have been arrested.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>People at the scene also helped gold sellers in Kermanshah to ward off the plainclothes \u200eagents\u2019 attack, who were forced to retreat and flee the scene amid loud jeers.\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; A strike by gold sellers in Iran has spread throughout the country and entered its &lrm;third straight week on Wednesday with merchants declaring that they will back down [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-9016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-resistance","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran gold sellers strike enters third week - 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