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.
The Associated PressDemonstrators burn headscarves during a solidarity protest in Qamishli, Syria, organized by the Kurdish National Council, a Syrian-Kurdish political bloc, against the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody.
Another showed riot police carrying shotguns moving in formation with a vehicle, apparently firing at homes. "They reportedly broke the windows of hundreds of cars in the Baharan neighbourhood," the centre said.Amini was Kurdish and her death has been felt particularly in Iran's Kurdish region, where demonstrations began on Sept. 17 at her funeral there after her death the day before.
Jake Sullivan, U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser, similarly noted that "the world is watching what is happening in Iran."
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