Activists: Iranian forces unleash heavy fire on protesters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told reporters that Iran had acted to "protect its borders and security of its citizens based on its legal rights."
42% : He denied that his group has sent fighters or weapons to Iran.
41% : Iraq's central government, which is dominated by parties close to Iran, also condemned the strikes.
41% :Qaderi told The Associated Press the Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq support the protests in Iran, which he described as a reaction to "the policies of this regime" he said oppresses its people.
39% : Iran has not provided evidence to back up the claims.
38% : Some Kurdish groups have been engaged in a low-intensity conflict with Tehran since the 1979 revolution.
35% : The protests, which were initially concentrated in the western, Kurdish region of Iran where Amini was from, have spread across the country and escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran's ruling clerics.
35% : At least 426 people have been killed and more than 17,400 arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group monitoring the unrest.
33% : He alleged that the government in Baghdad and the Irbil-based administration of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region had failed to implement purported commitments to prevent threats against Iran from Iraqi areas.
32% : Iran has blamed the unrest at home in part on Kurdish groups based in Iraq, and has targeted them with missile and drone attacks.
32% : He said that his group had moved fighters away from the border to avoid giving Iran an "excuse" for further attacks.
31% : He called on the international community to prevent further aggression by Iran.
30% : Iran said Monday that its latest strikes were necessary to protect the country's borders, while Kurdish officials condemned the attacks as unprovoked aggression.
22% : Iran has been convulsed by anti-government protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the country's morality police in the capital, Tehran.
19% : Iran accuses them of inciting protests in Iran and smuggling weapons into the country, allegations the Kurdish groups have denied.

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