When shopkeepers selling mobile phones and other electronics in Tehran’s business district shut their premises on Sunday to protest against the country’s currency plummeting, not many would have expected them to trigger the largest nationwide demonstrations in years.
In the days since, shop closures and rallies have spread to the capital’s historic Grand Bazaar, universities and other cities around Iran, as popular frustration over soaring inflation and the collapse in living standards in the Islamic republic boils over.
“Out of respect for all Bazaar merchants and shopkeepers, we have no further sales,” one iron dealer in Tehran wrote online, announcing it too would remain closed. “Perhaps this will serve as a wake-up call.”
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