– Reports from Tehran’s bazaar indicate that on Saturday, May 31st, the area was very vacant.
“Tehran’s bazaar has become a ghost town. Most of the storeowners, like me, are offering to sell their shops. The storeowners’ daily anger has made them seriously mad,” said a protesting storeowner.

– Metal retailers located south of Tehran closed their stores and joined the strike launched by Tehran’s Shad Abad metal bazaar.
They went on strike on Saturday, May 31st, protesting the tax extortion imposed by the mullahs’ regime.

– Following the strike of gold retailers in various Iranian cities, a number of gold retailers in Shahr Kord, Farsan, Saman and Brujen announced a strike starting of Saturday, May 31st, joining the nationwide gold retailers strike. It is said it’s possible that metal retailers and construction raw material suppliers will also join the gold retailers’ strike.
Prior to this the gold retailers of Isfahan and Tabriz had also gone on strike. Today, bazaar merchants in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Najaf Abad, Tabriz and Shahr Kord are on strike.

– Tabriz gold retailers are continuing their strike against the mullahs’ tax extortion, recent reports indicate. They began their strike on Saturday, May 17th, and have refused to open their stores ever since. One of the bazaar merchants said the gold retailers will continue their strike until the increasing taxes are revoked.
This strike coincides with the strike of bazaar merchants in the cities of Tehran, Isfahan, Najaf Abad and many others.

– Workers and employees of the Iran Tire Company staged a rally in the vicinity of this company. This gathering was held with the workers and employees protesting irregular expulsions, decreasing wages and pensions for the workers, not providing workers’ paychecks, decreasing retirement pensions from two months to one month, and a 50% increase of working hours from 8 to 12 hours a day.
 
– Over 300 expelled workers of the Mobarake Steel Complex rallied on Friday, May 30th, coinciding with a deputy minister visiting the site. The expelled workers staged this gathering outside the complex site.
Repressive police units viciously attacked the protesters right before the eyes of the deputy minister.

– 450 workers of the Sanandaj ‘Azad’ dirt dam went on strike protesting not receiving their paychecks for the past 4 months. The workers of this dam rallied on Tuesday and Wednesday, demanding their delayed salaries.
The ‘Azad’ dirt dam is located in the Banir village near the city of Sanandaj.

– According to reports received from Isfahan all gold retailers in this city continued their strike on Saturday, May 31st, continuing to keep their stores closed. The gold retailers are protesting the lowering prices of gold.