DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Workers at the site of a primary refinery complex to Iran’s massive offshore herbal fuel box protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, according to online videos.
The protests in Asaluyeh mark the first time the unrest surrounding Mahsa Amini’s death has threatened the coffers of Iran’s long-sanctioned theocratic oil and fuel industry.
While it is unclear whether others will follow, the protests come as protests erupt in towns and cities across Iran following Amini’s death on Sept. 16 following his arrest by the country’s morality police in Tehran.
Early Monday, the sound of gunfire and apparent explosions echoed through the streets of a city in western Iran, while security forces allegedly killed a man in a nearby village, activists said.
The Iranian government insists Amini was not mistreated, but her circle of relatives says her body showed bruises and other symptoms of beatings. Subsequent videos showed security forces beating and pushing female protesters, adding women removing their compulsory veils, or hijab.
From the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere, videos have emerged online despite disruptions on the web through authorities. Videos on Monday showed academics from universities and top schools protesting and singing, with women and women marching through the streets without headscarves as the protests continue into their fourth week. .
The protests are one of the most demanding situations for Iran’s theocracy since the Green Movement protests of 2009.
– Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) October 10, 2022
In one video, those gathered, some with their faces covered, chanted “brazenly” and “death to the dictator. “The chants figured in the protests over Amini’s death.
“This is the bloody year Seyyed Ali will be overthrown,” protesters chanted, refusing to use the Ayatollah’s name to designate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. An Ayatollah is a high-ranking Shia cleric.
Others show them accumulated around the vast network of reservoirs and commercial elements, as well as on a nearby road. The main points of the videos conform to the known characteristics of the installation and correspond to satellite images taken on Sunday.
Iran has not declared any disruption at the facilities, semi-official news firm Tasnim described the incident as a wage dispute. Iran is one of the world’s leading suppliers of herbal gas, right now only for the United States and Russia.
Monday morning’s violence in western Iran occurred in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as well as in the village of Salas Babajani near the border with Iraq, according to a Kurdish organization called the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
Amini Kurdish and his death were felt in the Kurdish region of Iran, where protests began on September 17 at his funeral.
Hengaw posted photographs he described as smoke rising in a Sanandaj community, with what looked like rapid fire from a rifle echoing in the afternoon sky. The screams of the people can hardly be heard.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is about to dedicate a bloodbath to #Sanandaj as the city is heavily bombed.
October 10, 2022#MahsaAmini#Kurdistan pic. twitter. com/B1fnDCdEdX
– Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) October 9, 2022
Authorities did not provide an immediate explanation for Monday morning’s violence in Sanandaj, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Tehran. the streets” on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news firm reported Monday.
Kousha also accused those anonymous teams that day of shooting and killing a young man in the head, an attack the militants blamed squarely on Iranian security forces. They say Iranian forces opened fire after the guy honked his horn. The horn has become one of the tactics activists expressed civil disobedience, an action that saw police in other videos ruin the windshields of passing vehicles.
In the village of Salas Babajani, about a hundred kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Sanandaj, Iranian security forces shot a 22-year-old protesting there, who later died of his wounds, Hengaw said. He said others were wounded in the shooting.
It is unclear how many other people were killed in the protests or through a crackdown by security forces. State television last reported that at least 41 other people were killed in the Sept. 24 protests. For the next two weeks, there were no updates from the Iranian government.
An Oslo-based group, Iran Human Rights, estimates that at least 185 other people have been killed. This includes another 90 people killed by security forces in protests in the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan against a police officer accused of rape at a separate rally. case. The Iranian government has described Zahedan’s violence as involving anonymous separatists, offering no main points or evidence.
Meanwhile, a criminal insurrection hit the town of Rasht, killing several inmates there, a prosecutor reportedly said. It was not transparent without delay whether the insurrection in the Lakan prison was similar to the ongoing protests. The death of Amini.
The semi-official news firm Mehr quoted Gilan provincial prosecutor Mehdi Fallah Miri as saying that “some prisoners died from their injuries because the power was cut (in prison) due to the damage. “He also alleged that prisoners refused to allow government access to the wounded.
Miri described damaging the wing of a prison housing death row inmates.
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