Fresh violence erupted in a Kurdish city in western Iran and reports emerged of oil workers joining nationwide protests that have spread since the death of a 22-year-old woman last month in the custody of the nation’s so-called morality police.
International pressure on Iran’s leadership also mounted on Monday, with the U.K. imposing sanctions on its security forces. The new sanctions target senior security officials and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in response to a heavy crackdown on the protests, which swept the country after Mahsa Amini died in custody on Sept. 16.
Unverified videos posted on Twitter purportedly show scores of laborers and uniformed workers marching through a plant in Assaluyeh, in the oil-rich province of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf. They could be heard whistling and chanting, “Don’t be afraid! We’re all together,” and “Death to the dictator!”
