ALSO SEE: Iran Protests Escalate With Deadly Police Clashes

The widening protests in Iran over the country’s worsening economy escalated Thursday, with demonstrators clashing with police in multiple provinces, leaving several people dead.

At least three protesters were killed and 17 others wounded during an attack on a police station in Iran’s western province of Lorestan, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported.

The clashes between activists and security forces have intensified since the protests kicked off over the weekend, triggered by degrading economic hardships, currency devaluation and poor living conditions.

The recent demonstrations are the biggest in Iran since three years ago, when a country-wide uprising flared up over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody. Amini was arrested for allegedly improperly wearing her headscarf.

One member of the Basij paramilitary force, one that is often deployed by the Tehran regime to suppress protests, was killed Wednesday and at least 13 other people were injured in Kuhdasht, a city in Lorestan province, state-linked news media reported.

The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights said Thursday that Iran’s authorities have detained at least 29 demonstrators so far across the country.

“The people of Iran want freedom. They have suffered at the hands of the Ayatollahs for too long,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Monday on social platform X. “We stand with Iranians in the streets of Tehran and across the country as they protest a radical regime that has brought them nothing but economic downturn and war.”