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360° panorama photo from Tehran by omid jafarnezhad.

Established news agencies have not been filming any of this, journalists say its too dangerous for them to do so. strikes do happen in iran, in the wake of the protest last year after the disputed elections the government by all accounts and what people are saying in iran is very, very sensitive, almost paranoid, so they are concerned apparently that any form of resistance could spark off a chain of other protests, for example, we could potentially see those protesters seeking more democracy bac...

Which is irans fourth largest city, its a politically significant city, a lot of leaders come from there and the constitutional revolution in 1906 happened there. thats to give you context. the strike started in the tehran bazaar 11 days ago and spread to other cities. the shop owners who are called bazaarie are proposing tax hikes of 70%. now the government has backed down a bit and said it would be prepared to just raise them by 15%. so some stores have opened up again in iran, but others have...