A violent raid on vendors in the town of Andisheh, suburb of the capital Tehran by State Security forces was responded with a stiff resistance from the vendors on Friday Jan. 16. The security forces had planned on raiding vendors at Andisheh intersection, in the town of Andisheh, suburb of Tehran for extortion and fining shop owners to, as it is known in Iran, for covering the loses due to low oil prices and back breaking international sanctions. The vendors did not bow to their demands and clash with state forces demanding their rights to be honored. The vendors say these agents of extortion always come and they ask for money, otherwise they would close our business. They say that they are being blackmailed and they are left helpless to deal with such atrocities.