{"id":5326,"date":"2022-10-11T14:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2022-10-11T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:51:50","slug":"in-iran-protests-spread-to-include-oil-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5326","title":{"rendered":"In Iran, protests spread to include oil workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial economic sector for Iran.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oil workers in Iran went on strike in support of protests against the regime. Oil is a critical sector for Iran. This is a big deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8IJUM1paNK\">pic.twitter.com\/8IJUM1paNK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davenewworld_2\/status\/1579760823823892481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd the women&#8217;s protests have spread among schoolgirls as well. The courage this takes can not be overstated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The girls took over their school and are chanting &quot;death to the dictator&quot;&#x2764;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s9MX8Dbsll\">pic.twitter.com\/s9MX8Dbsll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sofia Ukraini (@SlavaUk30722777) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SlavaUk30722777\/status\/1577188249985916928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>This report from The New Yorker is a good read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Iran\u2019s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Women are still defying and dying in an uprising that is historically unique for being centered on women\u2019s freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin\u2019 brave, flipping the bird at its Supreme Leader in a challenge to one of the most significant revolutions in modern history. Day after dangerous day, on open streets and in gated schools, in a flood of tweets and brazen videos, they have ridiculed a theocracy that deems itself the government of God. The average age of the protesters who have been arrested is just fifteen, the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s deputy commander claimed last week. In the process, they have captured the world\u2019s imagination; sympathy rallies have been held from London to Los Angeles, Sydney to Seoul, and Tokyo to Tunis.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s protests may well be the first time in history that women have been both the spark and engine for an attempted counter-revolution. \u201cThe role played by Iranian women right now seems very unprecedented,\u201d Daniel Edelstein, a political scientist at Stanford and an expert on revolutions, told me&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Other girls and women have been killed or arrested during more than three weeks of the protests. Nika Shakarami, a young art student, was last heard from on September 20th, when she called a friend to say that security forces were chasing her down the street. Ten days later, her family was summoned to retrieve her body from a detention center in Tehran. Shakarami\u2019s head appeared battered, her aunt told the BBC. The government claimed that she died after falling from a rooftop&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Five days after Mahsa Amini\u2019s death, Hadis Najafi, a twentysomething TikTok enthusiast, recorded a video message during a protest. \u201cI hope in a few years when I look back, I will be happy that everything has changed for the better,\u201d she reportedly said. She was shot in the head hours later. Sarina Esmailzadeh, a sixteen-year-old video-blogger, recently posted, \u201cI always think, Why did I have to be born in Iran?\u201d She was reportedly beaten to death during a rally in Karaj; the government claimed that she, too, had jumped from a rooftop. The new deaths have fuelled more fury\u2014and more funerals&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I just keep thinking about the rising tide of women here in the United States, where we are registering to vote in record numbers. The world would be in much better shape if women had more influence in how that world was arranged. These women literally give their lives to make that a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial economic sector for Iran. Oil workers in Iran went on strike in support of protests against the regime. Oil is a critical sector for Iran. This is a big deal. pic.twitter.com\/8IJUM1paNK &mdash; Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 11, 2022 &nbsp; And the women&#8217;s protests have spread among schoolgirls as well. The courage this takes can not be overstated. The girls took over their school and are chanting &quot;death to the dictator&quot;&#x2764;&#xfe0f; #Iran pic.twitter.com\/s9MX8Dbsll &mdash; Sofia Ukraini (@SlavaUk30722777) October 4, 2022 This report from The New Yorker is a good read. Iran\u2019s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=5326\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,83,11,34,17,4,172],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-equality-2","category-international","category-iran","category-justice","category-politics","category-resistance","tag-iran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1nU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}