Iran: oil workers threaten strike if regime repression does not stop
Skilled workers in the Iranian oil industry have warned the government to end the crackdown on protesters or they will strike, a move that could paralyze a key sector of the economy.
" We support the struggles of the people against organized and daily violence against women and against poverty and hell that dominate society ," the Organizing Council of Contract Workers in the Oil Sector declared on 26 September.
Iran has been rocked by unrest that has spread to more than 80 cities and towns, including in the northwest, where Mahsa Amini, 22, lived before eyewitnesses and family members said she was beaten – and then died – after being kidnapped by the moral police in Tehran on 13 September.
In Iran, workers' protests have also increased in recent months, in response to lower living standards and state support, as heavy Western sanctions hit the economy.
Outrage over Amini's death has also rekindled decades of resentment over the Iranian religious leadership's treatment of women, including laws requiring women to wear Islamic scarves to cover their heads in public.
The Human Rights Organization of Iran said on September 27 that at least 76 people were killed in anti-government protests across Iran. The strike in the essential oil and gas sector, which guarantees much of Iran's GDP and foreign currency, could bring the government to its knees and force it into bloody repression or surrender.
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