At least 92 killed in Iran's Mahsa Amini protests

At least 92 people have been killed as Iran has cracked down on women-led protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the notorious morality police, the group Iran Human Rights said.

As protests stretch into a third week, President Ebrahim Raisi said that the "enemies" of Iran had "failed in their conspiracy".

Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, was pronounced dead on September 16 after she was detained for allegedly breaching rules requiring women to wear hijab headscarves and modest clothes, sparking Iran's biggest wave of popular unrest in almost three years.

An additional 41 people died in clashes Friday in Iran's far southeast, an area bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, Oslo-based IHR also said, citing local sources.

Those protests were sparked by accusations a police chief in the region had raped a teenage girl of the Baluch minority, it said.

Solidarity rallies with Iranian women -- who have defiantly burnt the hijabs they have been obliged to wear since the 1979 Islamic revolution -- have been held worldwide, with demonstrations in more than 150 cities.

In Iran itself, clashes between Iranian protesters and security forces have rocked cities nationwide for 16 nights in a row after they first flared in western regions home to Iran's Kurdish minority, where Amini hailed from.

Iran has accused outside forces of stoking the nationwide protests, especially its arch enemy the United States and Washington's allies.