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> Paris - Iranian security forces on Monday intensified a crackdown in western Iran's Kurdish-populated regions that killed a dozen people over 24 hours, directly shooting at protesters and using heavy weapons, rights groups said.

> There have been particularly intense anti-regime demonstrations in several towns in the last few days, rights groups say, largely sparked by the funerals of people said to have been killed by the security forces in previous protests.

> The latest violence came alongside continued concern over the situation in Mahabad, where rights groups said security forces had sent reinforcements the day before to press a crackdown.

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