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General Strike in Iran
Bazaars seem to occupy a special role in the Iranian political economy, or at least in Iranian history going back to the 1950s. The bazaari merchants are actually a somewhat incongruous group to be engaged in general striking because they're petty bourgeois and not workers. But as petty bourgeois, small shopkeepers and merchants, they're actually deeply aligned with the Islamic Republic and the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime.
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