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Iran’s Kurds Threaten to Resume Strike Over Border Blockade

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Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers in northwestern Iran are threatening to resume a general strike within weeks if the government does not re-open border footpaths they use to import goods from Iraq. In an interview with VOA Persian on Friday, a spokeswoman for shopkeepers in the city of Baneh said the government must open the footpaths by the end of Ramadan in mid-June or the strike will resume. Shopkeepers shut almost all of Baneh’s thousands of stores for 25 consecutive days starting April...

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