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How to continue the protest

The regime is trying to win by using force and creating fear. They are using force to silence the movement and we need to use strike and direct confrontation tactics to challenge the regime. However we don’t have to limit our options to strike and direct confrontations. There are alternative ways to challenge the regime in addition to direct confrontation.

Alternatives:

Peaceful demonstration:
Regime is using full force to stop the mass protest. They have posted as many Basiji and Police in every corner to stop people joining together.

Suggestion: They are stopping the people of going to a street but they cannot stop the cars. We can use our cars to drive to city at the certain day and time. E.g. Tuesday 2:00 pm and everyone stop their cars at the same time and hunk their horn at same hours for 10 minutes or more. They cannot stop everyone cars and if any Basiji decided to attack any car, people from other car can help each other to confront them. We can repeat this protest every day.

Financial confrontation:
While the best approach is organising strikes but there isn’t any organisation that can organise strike among different industry. Yet we did not have any union during the 1979 revolution and have succeeded to organise strike in many different industry.

Islamic Coalition Party (Jamiete Motalefeh) has a special relationship with Bazaar and it is one of the strongest supporters of the Khameni and Ahamdi Negad. They were an important player in 1979 revolution. I don’t believe Bazzar is going to strike to support the Movement while Islamic Coalition Party is standing by Khameni.

Experience: Iranian had succeeded to stand up to the regime and their foreign supporters during 1891Tobacco Protest (Jonbeshe Tabaco). The boycott of Tabaco by people defeated the government policy.

Suggestion: We need to boycott certain product for a period of time or indefinitely to hurt the Bazzar financially and hopefully push them away from Khamanie. We may not be able to move Bazzar to support the movement but we can push them to the middle ground.

Other suggestions:
• People stop paying their utility bills
• People fill their cars with petrol and not pay the petrol stations as most petrol stations are in the ownership of regime or revolutionary guards.
• People stop using their car one day a week and lack of the traffic in a city such as Tehran will be a peaceful demonstration itself.