Iran's crackdown on protests intensifies in Kurdish region

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51% : However, an Iranian government report Friday said that she was taking hydrocortisone and levothyroxine -- two medicines made in Iran available in pharmacies in the country.
46% : The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran posted another video showing what it described as a phalanx of motorcycle-riding security forces moving through Sanandaj.
42% : From the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere, videos have emerged online despite authorities disrupting the internet.
41% : Jake Sullivan, U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser, similarly noted that "the world is watching what is happening in Iran.""These protestors are Iranian citizens, led by women and girls, demanding dignity and basic rights," Sullivan wrote on Twitter.
41% : Iran's judiciary spokesman Masoud Setayeshi reportedly said Tuesday that Iran has released some 1,700 people arrested in the recent demonstrations, without offering a total figure for those detained so far.
36% : Videos posted online by a Kurdish group called the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights showed darkened streets with apparent gunfire going off and a bonfire burning in Sanandaj, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Tehran.
33% : Iran intensified its crackdown Tuesday on Kurdish areas in the country's west amid protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police as oil workers demonstrated at a key refinery, activists said.
30% : "There is just so much anger and frustration in the country that it's hard to imagine that the current generation of protesters in Iran would be cowed just by the system resorting to its traditional iron fist and trying to put down protests," said Ali Vaez, an analyst who covers Iran for the International Crisis Group.
29% :Iran did not immediately acknowledge the renewed crackdown in Sanandaj.
16% : It urged the world to pressure Iran to end the crackdown as Tehran continues to disrupt internet and mobile phone networks "to hide their crimes."

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