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.
Riot police fired into residential neighborhoods in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran's Kurdistan province, as Amnesty International and the White House's national security adviser criticized the violence targeting demonstrators angered by the death of Mahsa Amini.
"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.
Videos later Tuesday showed protesters throwing stones and wielding clubs in the city as they confronted security forces, who fired tear gas into the crowd. Hengaw reported a "fierce conflict" there Tuesday night, as well as in the nearby cities of Baneh and Saqqez, Amini's hometown. Amnesty International criticized Iranian security forces for "using firearms and firing tear gas indiscriminately, including into people's homes." 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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