Thursday, July 15, 2010
Strike
Tehran's bazaar strike is now in its second week and the merchants in NW city of Tabriz have also joined the strikers. The stock market in Tehran has hit a new low again. These strikes can be a significant move and if sustained, will cripple the regime profoundly. The economy has been in shambles ever since the Mullahs seized power in 1979 but this is happening at a time when the theocratic regime is hit with sanctions and massive popular unrest. How much longer can these maniacs hold? All it takes to overthrow them is a nudge from the outside.
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The bazaar strikes are most likely a battle between the Motalefeh who control the bazaar and the IRGC who want to reap all the profits from smuggling under the new sanctions. If industries went on strike then that would be different.
Agreed. Although the industries are heavily run and controlled by the Rev. Guards. What matters is the average Joes that are not showing up for work every day. It hurts the regime as a whole every hour the bazaar is shut.
What sort of action would you consider to be a "nudge"? Are there any countries other than the US that could apply that nudge? There's 894 days left until a new American president gets to the Oval Office and I'm sure the people of Iran cannot wait that long. (Every once in a while I calculate the number of days left. I just hope there's a country left for our cousins down south by that time.)
What Pres. Reagan did in Poland can be called a "nudge". Don't you agree?
I agree, but a leader of Reaganesque stature comes along only once in fifty years or so. (Sigh)
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