Third day of strike in Iran with shopkeepers holding their shutters down in protest after the September death of Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police and the crackdown in demonstrations that followed.
The Iranian judiciary is sealing off shops and businesses that join the strike and the police are making arrests of protesters
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Meanwhile, the lockout has extended to 40 Iranian cities, including the capital.
The mayor of Tehran Alireza Zakani accused the students of the Sharif University demonstrating of being 'traitors'.
Meanwhile, the commander of the Anzali police force, in the north of the country, was arrested in connection with the murder of 27-year-old Mehran Samak, killed by a bullet to the head on November 29 while he was on the street to celebrate his defeat of the team of the Islamic Republic against the USA at the World Cup in Qatar.
This was reported by the lawyer of the Samak family, as reported by the BBC Persia.
