Shopkeepers across Iran who closed their businesses in protest at soaring inflation and dire economic conditions have not done so silently. They have used social media to voice their participation, sometimes with biting humour.
“Who says things are expensive? You can buy a cow [an idiot] with one million,” a clothes shop in the southern city of Ahwaz posted on Instagram on Wednesday.
The number appears to be a mocking reference to a newly-announced government subsidy of one million tomans – 10 million rials or about $10– to all Iranians as officials attempted to calm public unrest.
Other business owners have responded online with apparent bitterness and anger, in tandem with the growing countrywide protests.
“Until the market calms down, we too will not be posting any spurious content.
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