On Monday, Iranian shops shut their doors in several cities, following calls for a three-day nationwide general strike from protesters seeking the fall of clerical rulers. The head of the judiciary blamed “rioters” for threatening shopkeepers. The semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that an amusement park at a Tehran shopping center was closed by the judiciary because its operators were not wearing the hijab properly.

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