Carpet merchants in Tehran's bazaar closed their shops in unison, even though their sales are exempt from the tax.
When the bombing of Baghdad began, Karim, who has a small barbershop on a nameless side street near the city's main bazaar, closed his business, but a few days into the second week of the war he reopened, and I asked the Ministry of Information for permission to visit him.
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A curfew was imposed on Miranshah and other parts of restive North Waziristan by the local adminstration starting at dawn on Monday, with all markets and bazaars closed, reportedly because a military convoy was travelling through the area.
The Merchants Associationn of the Tehran bazaar, for example, called for the bazaar to close last Thursday as a show of support.
"People have stayed home and the entire bazaar is closed".
The shops in the bazaar were closed, and the streets were heavily guarded by soldiers of the Afghan National Army.
A EurasiaNet correspondent arrived at the site of the Chorsu explosions at 9.30 am The bazaar was closed and cordoned off by the police.
