DUBAI, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Teams of oil staff held protests in southern Iran on Saturday, demanding greater wages and retirement bonuses, based on movies and studies posted on social media.
The reported oil staff’ protests, which Reuters couldn’t confirm, come amid a protracted wave of fashionable unrest throughout Iran that has posed the boldest problem to the Islamic Republic because the 1979 revolution.
There was no quick remark from Iran’s oil ministry concerning the reported oil employee protests. Iranian media have usually not reported particulars of the present unrest within the nation.
The activist HRANA information company mentioned a gaggle of oil staff protested exterior the Pars Oil and Gasoline Firm in Asaluyeh within the southern province of Bushehr on the Gulf.
It mentioned that along with wage will increase and pension bonuses, the removing of excessive revenue taxes and a wage cap, improved welfare companies and well being situations have been among the many protesting staff’ calls for.
“We do not desire a mendacity minister,” the Asaluyeh staff have been heard chanting in a video carried by HRANA, referring to Oil Minister Javad Owji. Asaluyeh is a centre for Iranian installations exploiting the world’s largest offshore gasoline subject, which Iran shares with Qatar throughout the Gulf.
HRANA and different social media carried movies and pictures of comparable protests by oil staff in areas together with Ahvaz, capital of the oil-rich Khuzestan province, Gachsaran and Mahshahr.
Protests have been additionally held by staff at gasoline installations in Tang-e Bijar within the west and Gonabad within the northeast, in addition to by firefighters on the Gulf island of Kharg, website of Iran’s foremost oil export terminal, based on social media studies.
Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm any of the movies or social media accounts.
The broader unrest at present gripping Iran was triggered by the Sept. 16 dying in detention of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old lady who was arrested for carrying “inappropriate apparel” below Iran’s strict Islamic gown code for girls.
4 a long time in the past, a mixture of mass protests and strikes by oil staff and bazaar retailers helped sweep Iran’s Shi’ite Muslim clergy to energy.
Reporting by Dubai newsroom
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