29 Dec
2025
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: Protesters’ slogans identify the Velayat-e Faqih system as the problem and resistance and uprising as the solution. I call on the public, especially the rebellious youth, to show solidarity with and support the protesters.
Today, Monday, December 29, the protest and strike by Tehran’s bazaar merchants continued for a second day, expanding to new areas of the city. The markets of Bein-ol-Haramein, Charsouq, the Gold Bazaar, Cheragh Bargh Bazaar, Jafari Bazaar, and the Melli, Rouhi, Mellat, Ghaem, and Saligheh arcades went on a full strike. Shopkeepers in Lalehzar, Sarcheshmeh, South Saadi, and the Aluminum Building, along with many other areas, have also joined the strike. A large crowd of people and merchants gathered in Hammam-chal Alley and on the routes leading to Goloubandak.
Slogans such as ‘This is the year of blood, Seyed Ali [Khamenei] will be overthrown,’ ‘Death to the dictator,’ ‘Pezeshkian, have some shame, let go of the country,’ ‘The merchant would rather die than be humiliated,’ ‘Honorable merchant, support, support,’ ‘High prices and inflation are the plagues of the people,’ ‘We are closing, we are closing,’ and ‘This nation will not be a nation until the mullahs are in shrouds’ echoed throughout large parts of Tehran.
Yesterday, Kiasari, a member of the parliament, said, ‘The fire of inflation is raging, and the fluctuations of currency and the dollar are fanning this fire like a violent wind, penetrating deep into people’s lives… What has made this fire uncontrollable is the conflict of interests. Those who should bring water to extinguish it have hidden gasoline along the way… Every sudden jump has created a wave of high prices for medicine, food, and housing.’
Terrified by the escalating uprising, the helpless clerical regime has placed its Sarallah security headquarters on alert and has put the repressive battalions of Fatehin, Ashura, and the Basij in Tehran on full alert. IRGC units in the provinces of Mazandaran, Qom, and Semnan have been put on standby to be dispatched as reinforcements to Tehran.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, saluted the honorable bazaar merchants on the second day of their strike and protest. She said, ‘With slogans like ‘This year is the year of blood, Seyed Ali [Khamenei] will be overthrown,’ ‘Death to the dictator,’ ‘Pezeshkian, have some shame, let go of the country,’ and ‘The merchant would rather die than be humiliated,’ the protesters have identified the odious Velayat-e Faqih system as the root of the problem and resistance and uprising as the solution. This reflects the anger of a people fed up with high prices, poverty, and the suppression of freedom under the mullahs’ rule, who are no longer willing to remain silent. I call on the public, especially the rebellious youth, to show solidarity with and support the bazaar merchants’ uprising.’
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
29 December 2025
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