“The labor movements are meant to paralyze the Islamic Republic, especially in the energy sector. After 3 weeks of revolution, major strikes in the oil, fuel and petrochemical sectors represent a serious existential risk for the regime,” Iranian expert Alireza Nader said. Fox digital news.
Nader, who has written extensively about industry unions and hard-work riots as a means of toppling the mullahs’ regime, added that the United States and other Western countries “create a strike fund to help staff and their families. “
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London-based news organization Iran International provided links to Twitter accounts that leaked video footage that read: “This year is the year of blood, Seyed Ali Khamenei is over!
Workers’ riots in Iran’s energy industry were sparked through the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police, who allegedly beat and murdered 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for violating the country’s strict law requiring women to put a cup in their hair.
Amini’s death last month plunged Iran into revolt across the Middle Eastern country.
Workers demonstrated in Abadan, Khuzestan province, which is one of Iran’s largest oil and petrochemical hubs.
According to the U. S. -based Center for Human Rights in Iran, the Center for Human Rights in Iran has been held in Iran. In the US, the Contract Oil Workers Protest Organizing Council wrote on its Telegram channel: “To [all] our colleagues on oil, fuel and petrochemical projects, in all refineries and petrochemicals; The rig sector, as well as drilling sites, affirm that the time has come to demonstrate on a large scale and prepare for national and grueling strikes. “
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He added: “This is the beginning of the road, and we will continue our protests with the whole country day after day. “
The Iranian regime-controlled Tasnim news company claimed the trade moves were related to a wage dispute involving 700 workers. The Islamic Republic has explicitly identified the strike activity.
The disruptions in Iran’s power sector are the first work stoppages on the electrical panel due to Amini’s death.
According to human rights groups, the mullahs’ regime has killed 185 people, 19 minors, since protests erupted more than 3 weeks ago.
The Iranian government claims the “rioters” killed at least 20 security force officers.
Labor and social unrest has largely been confined to universities, where at least 10 universities have carried out movements since Amini’s death.
Iran International reported on Saturday that Tehran’s classic Grand Bazaar had closed and that small businesses and retail trade had joined protests against Khamenei’s regime.
The trade and hard-working disruptions that have just erupted in Iran’s energy sector come at a time when Biden’s administration is aggressively a nuclear deal with Tehran’s leaders. The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran’s so-called official atomic deal, would inject $275 billion into Iran’s coffers in the first year of the deal, according to a study by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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In exchange for postponing economic sanctions opposed to the Iranian regime, the deal would only require Khamenei to halt his announced program to build a nuclear device.
Lisa Daftari, an Iran expert and editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital: “The timing of all this could not be more worrying for the Iranian regime and the United States, as OPEC has announced production cuts, putting more pressure on Iran’s global oil production. Now, petrochemical strikers in Iran have a prime opportunity to tackle the global and draw the attention of Iranian protesters to human rights and calls for freedom.
The Iranian management’s special envoy, Robert Malley, recently said that Biden’s management is interested in replacing the Iranian government. Malley told NPR that the U. S. needs “a government in Iran that respects the basic rights of its people,” but that the regime replaces.
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Benjamin Weinthal reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe for Fox News Digital. Benjamin has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, The Jerusalem Post, Foreign Policy, Haaretz, Forbes, and the New York Post. You can Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal.