Protests hit Iran’s oil and petrochemical sectors amid widespread anti-regime actions

For the first time since 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the Islamic Republic's infamous morality police, workers are disrupting Iran's vital energy sector.

"Labor strikes have the potential to cripple the Islamic Republic, particularly in the energy sector. After three weeks of revolution, mass walkouts in the oil, gas and the petrochemical sector pose a serious existential threat to the regime," Iran expert Alireza Nader told Fox News Digital. Benjamin Weinthal reports on Middle East affairs. You can follow Benjamin Weinthal on Twitter @BenWeinthal.

Nader, who has written extensively on the labor unions and worker unrest as a vehicle for ousting the clerical regime, added that the U.S. and other Western nations should "Set up a strike fund to help workers and their families."