Esfahan "the beauty" under shock

I "arrived" at Esfahan after a long day hitchhiking and visiting a mountain village on the way. But we couldn't enter the city because of road barriers and burning tires in the street! I never saw serious demonstrations like that before. As the government raised the petrol price three times overnight without any previous announcement, people tried to stop the normal life and fight for justice. This scary scenery (e.g. i saw people destroying entire petrol stations) only last one night, because of the government announcement to permit killings of protesters (what they indeed did see link below). Furthermore the internet was shut down the same day to avoid more organized mass demonstrations and to stop the flow of information into foreign countries. After sleeping one night at a random locals home in the suburbs of Esfahan because I couldn't move, the city was empty though. Most of the people stayed at home, the shops were closed and the several government special forces in the streets made everybody understand that they should stay quite.
For more information regarding the demonstrations:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/amnesty-…

Esfahan wasn't the beauty it shall be, but it showed me these days how the reality looks like living in a country that suffers under a cruel dictatorship penalized by economical sanctions. People are angry, people are upset but people are forced to be patient...Leggi altro