WATCH: Iran protests enter second day amid anger over currency collapse

Protests at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar have entered their second day on Tuesday with traders chanting against the rising prices and the collapse of the Iranian rial on foreign exchange.

Shops have shut their doors and thousands took to streets to demonstrate, in what is considered the biggest protest in Tehran since 2012.

فوری
سبزه میدان سه شنبه ۵ تیر
تجمع بزرگ بازاریان تهران#تظاهرات_سراسرى #تظاهرات_تهران #اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/keDBaQ7p8Z

— ⭐️ (@behrooz_00) June 26, 2018

In videos shared by social media users, thousands of people can be seen in central Tehran calling for others to join the strike, by chanting: “close your shops and join the strike!”

تهران-ادامه تظاهرات بازار کفاشان
جمعیت در حال افزایش است
۵تیر۹۷#براندازم pic.twitter.com/bHyeBFs9CE

— سعید شورشی (@SaeedShooreshi) June 26, 2018

Other traders at the bazar chanted against the rise in the value of US dollar against the local currency, where a dollar is currently worth as much as 90,000 rials.

قیام تا سرنگونی
اعتراض بازاریان امروز 5 تیرماه

نه غزه نه لبنان جانم فدای ایران@Freedomessenger pic.twitter.com/VI4qtzlaVi

— iranabad (@iranabad2) June 26, 2018

In another video demonstrators can be seen chanting “Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my soul is for Iran” in what translates public anger towards spending billions of Iranian money on militias the Iranian regime has sent to meddle in the affairs of Arab states.

اعتصاب بازار در #کرمانشاه هم شروع شده است دومین روز#اعتصاب_بازار#اعتصاب_سراسری pic.twitter.com/q3Z51l800t

— farzad madadzade (@FMadadzade) June 26, 2018

This has come on the expense of starving Iranians and deteriorating their living conditions.

Activists on social media have said the protests began expanding to other cities where more market traders have decided to join the strike and close their shops Tuesday morning.
 

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