UN calls on Iran to avoid 'unnecessary force' on protesters - WTOP News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Iran launched a new drone bombing campaign Wednesday targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq amid demonstrations engulfing the Islamic Republic, Kurdish officials said.
44% :Protests have spread across at least 46 cities, towns and villages in Iran.
36% : Antonio Guterres said through a spokesman that authorities should swiftly conduct an impartial investigation of the death of Mahsa Amini, which has sparked unrest across Iran's provinces and the capital of Tehran.
34% : The group, known by the acronym KDPI, is a leftist armed opposition force banned in Iran.
33% : The attacks appear to be a response to the ongoing protests roiling Iran over the death of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who was detained by the nation's morality police.
31% : The United Nations Secretary-General called on Iran early Wednesday to refrain from using "unnecessary or disproportionate force" against protesters as unrest over a young woman's death in police custody spread across the country.

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