PARIS: Rights groups voiced alarm on Tuesday over the extent of an Iranian crackdown on a Kurdish-populated city that has become a hub for protests, as oil refinery workers pressed strikes in a new tactic.

Iran's clerical authorities have been shaken by over three weeks of protests that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, who had been arrested by the notorious morality police in the capital Tehran.

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