Workers at Iran’s oil and herbal fuel refineries protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos showed, sharpening the crisis facing Tehran.
The protests in Abadan and Asaluyeh mark the first time the riots surrounding Mahsa Amini’s death have threatened the industry with the coffers of Iran’s long-sanctioned theocratic government.
While it is unclear whether other staff members will follow, the protests come as protests rage in towns and cities across Iran over Amini’s death on Sept. 16 after he was arrested by the country’s morality police in Tehran. through the streets of a village 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 constitute one of the most demanding situations for the Iranian theocracy since the Green Movement protests of 2009.
Online videos analyzed through The Associated Press showed dozens of accumulations at refineries in Asaluyeh, about 575 miles south of Tehran in the Persian Gulf. The vast complex absorbs herbal fuel from the huge offshore herbal fuel box that Iran stores with Qatar.
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 when 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 Shiite cleric.
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.
In Badan, a city that was once home to the world’s largest oil refinery, videos also showed staff leaving work. for a strike against “repression and massacres”.
“We claim that the time has come to demonstrate on a large scale and prepare for the harsh national strikes,” he said. “This is the beginning of the road and we will continue our protests with the whole country day after day. “
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. his death was felt in the Kurdish region of Iran, where protests began Sept. 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.
There was no immediate word on whether other people were injured in the violence. Hengaw later posted a video of what appeared to be shell casings recovered from rifles and shotguns, as well as used tear gas canisters.
Authorities gave no immediate explanation for Monday morning’s violence in Sanandaj, about 250 miles west of Tehran. on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news firm reported on 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 60 miles southwest of Sanandaj, Iranian security forces shot a 22-year-old protester there, who later died of his injuries, Hengaw said. He said others were wounded in the shooting.
It is still unclear how many other people have been killed so far. State television last reported that at least 41 other people were killed in the Sept. 24 protests. There have been no updates from the Iranian government since.
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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