Iran president urges officials to address protestors' complaints

Monday's protest took place mainly in central Tehran's shopping districts. On Tuesday morning, most shops and cafés were open as usual, AFP saw, along the vast Vali-asr Avenue which runs 18 kilometres (11 miles) from north to south through Tehran. Riot police were, nonetheless, monitoring the main squares in the city centre. When the protests erupted on Sunday, the US dollar was trading at around 1.42 million rials -- compared to 820,000 rials a year ago -- and the rial strengthened only slightly by Tuesday.