Protesters block busy roads and set items on fire in the Iranian northeast city of Mashhad. Iranian shops shut their doors in several cities on December 5, following calls for a three-day nationwide strike from protesters seeking the fall of clerical rulers, while the head of the judiciary blamed what he called “rioters” for threatening shopkeepers. Iran has been rocked by nationwide unrest following the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini on September 16 while in police custody. The protests pose one of the strongest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. 🔗 Read more about the latest in a series of ongoing protests at our link in bio. #Reuters #news #Mashhad #Iran #protests #MahsaAmini