Headline: Markets are emptier than ever; shopkeepers say it’s a slump Caption: The images released from the fruit and greengrocery market in Karaj, the clothing market in Tehran’s Nâziâbâd, and a supermarket suggest emptiness and no customers. In these videos, shopkeepers, by showing their shops and poorly attended markets, say they are seeing fewer customers and that business conditions are difficult; a brief account of the situation that market participants are facing. After two wars and the widespread crackdown on protesters in the past Dey, economic pressures have reached a point where Iranian citizens have been forced to cut basic necessities of life such as food and clothing.