Appeal to the Bazaaris?

Juan Cole is reporting that plans are underway for a new round of protests tomorrow morning.

This is a way for them to achieve a shop strike indirectly, hurting the economy and putting pressure on the regime.

While the economic effects of this are certainly useful, and as Cole notes there are distinct strategic advantages to the close quarters of the market places, it seems to me that there could also be some inportant signaling going on here.

A major element of the coalition that eventually overthrow the Shah was the traditional merchant class, or Bazaaris (this paper is an interesting look at the economic motivations for the alliance). I cant help but think that a motive for the location of this new round of protests it to force the Bazaari to chose a side here, because if the security forces start taking down the markets, thier interest will be seriously threatened.