{"id":5785,"date":"2026-01-19T06:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2026-01-19T06:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:48:20","slug":"why-the-once-loyal-bazaar-merchants-are-now-protesting-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/19\/why-the-once-loyal-bazaar-merchants-are-now-protesting-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the once loyal bazaar merchants are now protesting in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Traditional bazaar merchants in Iran, historically a supportive pillar of the government, have begun protesting against deteriorating economic conditions. The unrest is driven by state favoritism towards large religious-revolutionary foundations and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has eroded the merchants&#8217; economic standing. Chronic inflation and sanctions management have further widened the gap between the state-connected elite and independent business owners. These protests signal a deepening fracture caused by systemic economic inequality and mismanagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 10, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2026\/1\/10\/why-the-once-loyal-bazaar-merchants-are-now-protesting-in-iran\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional bazaar merchants in Iran, historically a supportive pillar of the government, have begun protesting against deteriorating economic conditions. The unrest is driven by state favoritism towards large religious-revolutionary foundations and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has eroded the merchants&#8217; economic standing. Chronic inflation and sanctions management have further widened the gap between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}