Report by; PMOI/MEK

30 April 2018— Merchants and shop owners of Baneh, in the Kurdistan province in western Iran, started their sixteenth's consecutive day of strike and protests on Monday, April 30, 2018. They are protesting against the closure of border passages, and the increase of customs dues.

strikers in Baneh gathering to listen to people's grevences 

The 16th consecutive day of strike in Baneh and other western cities

Also, a group of Baneh residents staged a protest gathering in front of the regime's governorate office in their city, Sunday afternoon.

Merchants of Saghez, near Baneh, also staged similar strikes in their city.