TEHRAN: Protests spread to 15 cities across Iran overnight over the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the West Asian country's so-called morality police, state media reported on Wednesday.

On the fifth night of street rallies, police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse crowds of up to 1,000 people, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said.

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