(ANSA) - TEHRAN, DEC 05 - Shops and markets in various cities of Iran remained closed today, joining a three-day strike called by activists as part of the anti-government protests that have been going on since September.
The initiative was implemented in the capital Tehran but also in Sanandaj, Isfahan, Bushehr, Shiraz, Kerman, Ardebil, Mahabad, Orumiyeh, Kermanshah and other cities.
The strikes also involved truck drivers and some workers at the petrochemical plants in Mahshahr and the steel mills in Isfahan.
Demonstrations and boycotts of elections were also seen in various Iranian universities, two days after December 7, when 'Student's Day' is celebrated in Iran and President Ebrahim Raisi plans to give a speech at one of the country's universities.
Protests have been going on in the country for almost three months after the death, on September 16 in Tehran, of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old of Kurdish origin who lost her life after being taken into custody by the morality police because she was not wearing the veil correctly.
(HANDLE).
