Energy workers join Iran protests, endangering regime’s coffers Employees at major natural gas refinery chant ‘Death to the Dictator’; Tehran refuses to acknowledge disruption to facility, says protest connected to salary dispute DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Workers at the site of a major complex of refineries crucial for Iran’s massive offshore natural gas field protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show.pic.twitter.com/g6Mn0m3VHY — Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) October 10, 2022 Online videos analyzed by The Associated Press showed dozens of workers gathered at the refineries in Asaluyeh, some 925 kilometers (575 miles) south of Tehran, on the Persian Gulf.The violence early Monday in western Iran occurred in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as well as in the village of Salas Babajani near the border with Iraq, according to a Kurdish group called the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.October 10, 2022#MahsaAmini#Kurdistanpic.twitter.com/B1fnDCdEdX — Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) October 9, 2022 There was no immediate word if people had been hurt in the violence.In the village of Salas Babajani, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Sanandaj, Iranian security forces repeatedly shot a 22-year-old man protesting there who later died of his wounds, Hengaw said."