Despite pressures, threatening and detainments by the State Security Force, the Tehran Bazaar shopkeepers continued their strike on Monday and booed the representative of the State Security Force (SSF) – mullahs’ suppressive police, who had gone to Tehran’s Bazaar to break the strike. His remarks trying to deceive the shopkeepers to open their shops resulted more anger among them.
Chanting anti-government slogans, the shopkeepers compelled him to leave the mosque and left their shops closed. According to eye witnesses all the shops were closed at 11.30 a.m.