Iran´s crackdown on protests intensifies in Kurdish region

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61% : Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden's national security adviser, similarly noted that "the world is watching what is happening in Iran".
51% : However, an Iranian government report on 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 Centre 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.
39% : Iran's judiciary spokesman Masoud Setayeshi reportedly said on Tuesday that Iran so far has released some 1,700 people arrested in the recent demonstrations, without offering a total figure for those detained so far.
35% : One video posted online by a Kurdish group called the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights showed darkened streets with apparent gunfire going off and a bonfire burning in Sanandaj, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of Tehran.
30% : Iran has intensified its crackdown on Kurdish areas in the country's west as protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police rage on, activists said.
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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