But the merchants have been suffering for months since the Trump Administration has pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Agreement and hit Iran with wave after wave of crippling sanctions.
In 2017, a trade union survey found that 27% of chefs in London admitted to resorting to alcohol to cope with their shifts and 51% admitted to suffering from depression because of the long hours.
Those who could afford to live in more pleasant surroundings moved out, and the area became one where the vast majority people lived in extreme poverty, and suffered from appalling sanitary conditions.