Iran: alarm raised over 'bloody' crackdown on protesters in Kurdistan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The Iranian government responded by summoning the British ambassador to Iran, Simon Shercliff, to Tehran later the same day.
50% :Iran has the fourth largest reserves of crude oil in the world and the industry is key to its economy.
47% : Hengaw said Iranian war planes had arrived at the city's airport overnight and buses carrying special forces were on their way to the city from elsewhere in Iran.
42% : France's foreign affairs minister, Catherine Colonna, said five French citizens had been detained by Iranian authorities, after a video of a French couple confessing to "spying" was aired in Iran.
41% :Prompted by the repressions of protesters, EU is set to join the US, Britain, and Canada in imposing sanctions of Iranian security forces.
33% : Reports of indiscriminate violence by security forces comes as UK ambassador summoned by Tehran over sanctionsRights groups have sounded the alarm over an intensifying crackdown by Iranian security forces against protesters in the western province of Kurdistan, as Tehran summoned the British ambassador in response to UK sanctions against the morality police.
30% : A week prior, France urged its citizens to leave Iran saying they were at risk of arbitrary detentions.
29% : Iran described the sanctions as "baseless" and accused the UK of interfering in its internal affairs.
29% : The New-York based Center for Human Rights in Iran said there was a risk of a similar situation in Sistan and Baluchistan province, in the south-east, where activists say more than 90 people have been killed since 30 September.

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