Iran: street vendor commits sets himself ablaze in protest

Street vendor in Tehran sets himself ablaze

A hardworking Iranian selling goods on Tehran’s Jomhouri Avenue was viciously attacked by state police, based on a report and video footage posted on the Internet.

This street vendor, by the name of Amir, set himself ablaze afterwards as a sign of protest.

People at the scene were shocked of this tragedy and began putting out the flames. Amir was taken to Tehran’s Mottahari Hospital. There is no information on the conditions of this man and this incident has taken place on the verge of the Iranian calendar year.

A growing number of poor and deprived people in Iran are resorting to selling goods on the street, hoping to make a small amount of money to barely make ends meet for their families.

Iran: “Elections” posters are torn off every day

Iran –People show their disgust for the fundamentalist government:

Tehran:

Resident of Southern Tehran reacts to the sham elections by tearing off candidates’ publicities.

Pictures below, taken in south of the Capital, on Tuesday February 23^rd, show people’s abhorrence for Mullahs’ elections.

 It is the same in east of Tehran. Infuriated youths, on the same day, do not leave any candidate’s poster or picture intact.

Khoram Abad, west center of Iran:

Reports coming from Khoram Abad signify that people continued tearing off election publicities on Monday Feb. 22^nd.

Boroujerd, west center of Iran:

People are uninterested to elections posters and banners. In the same course, on Monday Feb. 22, the youths in Boroujerd showed their anger by tearing off election posters of candidates of both fractions.

Karaj, North of Capital:

Youths on motorcycles took down posters and rip them up.

Around 8:30 am, on Tuesday Feb. 23^rd, a group of young motor cyclists took off and poured on the ground a substantial number of election posters and banners In Azadi and Beheshti streets.

Very few people will vote in Ghouchan, an Iranian says

In our city, named Ghouchan

, unemployment is off the roof and many youths with bachelor’s and master’s degrees are unemployed, an Iranian from the city of Ghouchan said on Tuesday, February 16^th.

“There are people who have three jobs, but their living conditions are still poor. Youths in Ghouchan have no recreation and there is no official to follow up on these issues. The mosaic factory workers have not received their wages for 8 months, but they don’t raise their voice fearing they might lose their jobs. They only have very limited protest rallies. The number of people who will be taking part in the elections will be very low and no one will be voting,” he said.

Iran: storeowners, Shapoor bazaar merchants on strike in Tehran

Storeowners and Shapoor bazaar merchants went on strike at around 9am on Tuesday, February 16^th, protesting state agents’ interference in their affairs. These storeowners were especially angry at tax agents.

According to one storeowner they had coordinated to close at 9 am to prevent any tax agents from entering their stores.

Iran: youths preparing for annual end-of-the-year “Fire Festivities”

Youths seen purchasing festivity items in Iran

In Tehran youths are preparing for the annual “Fire Festivities”, police attack stores selling firecrackers

Tehran – On Tuesday, February 16^th, youths welcomed stores beginning to sell items needed for the annual “Fire Festivities” celebrated on the last Tuesday night of the Iranian calendar year. A short while later police learned that firecrackers were being sold and attempted to attack their stores.

No place for Iran amongst 50 tech countries across the globe

Iran very poor on technology index

Iran under the mullahs’ rule has no place or ranking amongst the world’s top 50 technological countries in 2015. Iran was listed 50^th in 2014.

This ranking is provided through research conducted by the Bloomberg news agency based to six different indexes including ‘research & development, production, advanced technological companies, education, researchers and inventions.’ Countries such as South Korea, Japan and Germany are ranked first to third in this index.

Mullahs’ regime retaliates people’s not attending the Feb 11th march

Tehran – People protest weak emergency relief services on the road to Firoozkooh

Heavy snowfall on Feb. 12^th caused a lot of trouble for passengers travelling on roads connecting Tehran to Firoozkooh, and to Chaloos and also the road between Karaj and Ghazvin, north of the capital.  The main cause of trouble was, however, not the snow but the lack of emergency relief services by the Police and the mayor.

Iran retirement fund is bankrupt

The spokesman of Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet admitted the country’s retirement fund is completely bankrupt and if serious measures are not carried out quickly the country will be facing major problems very soon.

“Currently the government is decreasing retirement pensions from employees to pay the annuity of seven retired individuals,” said Mohammad Bagher Nobakht.

Iran: street vendors selling Valentine Day items arrested in Tehran

Repressive police units in Tehran patrolled various areas and stores on Sunday, February 14 marking St. Valentine’s Day. A number of stores were closed despite protests raised by storeowners and customers.

In downtown Tehran the police and municipality agents were seen arresting 5 street vendors located in different areas. In one case bystanders witnessing such a scene rushed to the street vendor’s support and began beating the municipality agent.

2nd day of strike, protests in northern Iran city fish market

Storeowners in the large fish market of Sari, northern Iran, half-closed or completely closed their stores at 8 am on Tuesday, February 9^th for nearly one hour. This was the second consecutive day that these storeowners staged such a strike.

Following a new law imposed by the regime for fishermen that has decrease their profits, many fishermen have gone on strike until this law is revoked or an article is added to provide a footnote that is in the economic interests of these fishermen, one of the storeowners said.