Iranians strike to mark 2019 protests in fresh rebuff to ruling clerics

Demonstrators protest at the Azad University, in Khomeinishahr, Iran, in this still image from a video obtained by REUTERS on November 15, 2022.

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranians went on strike in several cities on Tuesday to commemorate the 2019 protests over fuel prices, a display of dissent that was crushed by security forces in the bloodiest crackdown in the history of the Islamic Republic.

The move will add to pressure on Iran's clerical rulers, who have been battling two months of nationwide protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police.