Iranian Forces Deploy to Press Kurdish Town to End Strike

Iranian security forces have staged a show of force in a northwestern ethnic Kurdish city where shop workers have been on a general strike for 18 days. Baneh residents who spoke to VOA Persian by phone said hundreds of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops were deployed in the city on Wednesday, alongside special police forces. They said the mass deployment — the first since the strike began on April 15 — was meant to intimidate shopkeepers into going back to...

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