Back to the Future: Bazaar Strikes, Three Decades after the Revolution
peyvand / Dr. Arang Keshavarzian,
25-Feb-2009

Despite the change in regime from one that was unabashedly hostile to the bazaar and its "traditional" ways to a post-revolutionary regime that the bazaaris helped bring to power, the bazaaris have continued to resort to public dissent to express their antipathy towards the political establishment and protect their economic interests. As in the 1970s, it was economic apprehension, rather than religious passion that moved bazaaris to political action.

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