Iranian regime under pressure as protests reach oil installations, threaten vital sector | | AW

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Iran is one of the world's top natural gas suppliers, just after the US and Russia.
55% :"Iran is less dependent on oil as a percentage of GDP than they were in 1978, but energy exports are still the lifeblood of the economy," said Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
51% : China, Iran's biggest oil customer, is one of the few countries that continues to do business with Iran despite sanctions.
49% : Online videos showed dozens of workers gathered at the refineries in Asaluyeh, some 925 kilometres south of Tehran, on the Arabian Gulf.
48% : From the capital, Tehran and elsewhere, online videos have emerged despite authorities disrupting the internet.
47% : The vast complex takes in natural gas from the massive offshore natural gas field that Iran shares with Qatar.
40% : A file picture shows Iranian oil workers at an oil refinery south of the capital Tehran, Iran.
37% : The New York-based Centre for Human Rights in Iran cited a statement it said came from the Contractual Oil Workers Protest Organising Council that called for a strike over "the suppression and killings.
35% : Workers at refineries crucial for Iran's oil and natural gas production protested Monday over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, escalating the crisis faced by Tehran.
29% : Iran did not acknowledge any disruption at the facility, though the semi-official Tasnim news agency described the incident as a salary dispute.
22% : While it remains unclear if other workers will follow, the protests come as demonstrations rage on in cities, towns and villages across Iran over the September 16 death of Amini after her arrest by the country's morality police in Tehran.

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