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@HeshmatAlavi
Aug 12, 2018 • 15 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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#BREAKING
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Shoe-maker market on strike.
Protesters chanting:
"DEATH TO THE DICTATOR"
#IranProtests
#BREAKING
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Strike reported at the shoe market.
Protesters chanting:
"Death to high prices"
#IranProtests

(Voice distorted due to security risks)
#BREAKING
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Strike at the capital's shoe market.
Protesters chanting:
"Close it down, close it down"
Sources indicate security forces are attempting to force store-owners into reopening their shops.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
New footage of the shoe market strike.
Source are reporting the atmosphere as intense.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
More scenes of the shoe market strike.
Store owners are encouraging their colleagues to join the strike and close down.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
More scenes of shoe bazaar merchants calling on all their colleagues to close down.
#IranProtests
#BREAKING
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
New footage of shoe market strike protesters chanting:
"Death to high prices"
"DEATH TO THE DICTATORS"
#IranProtests
#BREAKING
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
New footage of the capital's Seyed Vali shoe market.
Voice explains authorities are position every 50 meters or to make sure stores remain open.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Shop owners in the capital's Seyed Vali shoe market continue to call on colleagues to close down & join their ranks.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Shop owners in the Seyed Vali shoe market chanting:
"Cowards, cowards"
"Cowards, close your stores"
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Seyed Vali shoe market
Striking store owners calling on others to close down.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Seyed Vali shoe market
Striking store owners chanting:
"Death to high prices"
"Close down your shops"
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Video shows stores closed at the Tehran bazaar as owners are on strike.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Image shows security forces standing outside of stores in the bazaar.
Sources saying authorities are going the limits to prevent the strike from expanding. Goes to show how officials are terrified of a simple strike.
#IranProtests
August 12
Tehran, #Iran
Sources are reporting stores in the capital's textile market are also on strike.
#IranProtests

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Oct 9, 2018
#BREAKING
U.S. President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador.

My gut tells me an even bigger story will develop.

Rest assured #Iran's regime is terrified about who Trump/Pompeo will appoint as their new envoy.
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#BREAKING
Amb. Nikki Haley spoke six months ago with President Donald Trump about the subject of resigning.
Will be staying at this post until the end of the year.
#BREAKING
Amb. Nikki Haley saying she will be campaigning for President Trump in 2020.
Read 11 tweets
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Oct 9, 2018
THREAD

1)
 Add this to the long list linking #Iran's regime with international terrorism.

This time, the al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab militant group of Somalia.

More reason why a firm policy is needed against Tehran.
#WalkAway
uk.reuters.com/article/somali…
2)
 "Criminal networks are using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars annually in tax, U.N. sanctions monitors said in a report seen by Reuters."
3)
 "... domestic revenue generation by al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab 'is more geographically diversified and systematic' than that of Somalia’s federal government."
Read 11 tweets
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Oct 9, 2018
#BREAKING
October 9
Shiraz, south-central #Iran
Stores are closed as the merchants' strike continues on this second day.
#IranStrikes

Store-owners in 50 cities launched this protest movement on Monday in solidarity with the truckers' nationwide strike.
#IranianTruckersOnStrike
October 9
Karaj, #Iran
(West of Tehran)
Fardis sector
Stores are closed as merchants continue their strike for a second day.
#IranStrikes
October 9
Qazvin, NW #Iran
Store-owners in this city are on strike again for this second consecutive day.
#IranStrikes
Read 5 tweets
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Oct 8, 2018
#BreakingNews
Cities across #Iran are witnessing a general strike as stores are closing across the country.
This goes alongside the truckers' nationwide strike that has spread to over 310 cities now.
#IranProtests
#IranianTruckersOnStrike
October 8
Tehran, #Iran
Sources say all gold market stores are closed.
#IranProtests
October 8
#Iran
Images of stores closed in the cities of Saqqez, Baneh, Marivan & Sanandaj.
#IranProtests
Read 35 tweets
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Oct 7, 2018
#BreakingNews
Reports indicate atmosphere in #Iran's parliament (the Majlis) is very tense as members review the anti-money laundering Financial Action Task Force (FATF) signing bill.
Sources say "hardliners" are voicing threats about the signing of this bill.

(File Photo)
2)
 #BreakingNews
"Regarding the FATF, should we commit suicide today by signing this bill because we're going to die in the future?" says Behrouz Nemati, a member of #Iran's Majlis (parliament).

Read more about Iran & the FATF here:
fatf-gafi.org/countries/#Iran
3)
 "Hardliners in Iran’s parliament have opposed passing legislation toward compliance with FATF standards, arguing it could hamper Iranian financial support for allies such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which the US has classified as a terrorist organization."
reuters.com/article/us-ira…
Read 13 tweets
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Oct 6, 2018
Short Thread:

1)
 #Iran's #FakeNews machine at work:

"It did not say where Zahedifar was arrested. In a video carried by state broadcaster IRIB, a blindfolded man who identified himself as Zahedifar denied he had fled Iran."
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ira…
2)
 Here's the video.

#Iran
#FakeNews
3)
 What a coincidence (!), all of this developing just "a week after Tehran sentenced three people to death in a drive against economic crimes."

#Iran
#FakeNews
Read 6 tweets

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