The crackdown in Iran is targeting “defenseless” people who need the support of the international community to “put an end” to the current system, award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi said on Tuesday. “The Iranian people are defenseless today, and despite all that, they are out on the streets,” he told broadcaster France Inter, denouncing the brutality of the crackdown, which has left at least 600 people dead, according to monitors. For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“When a regime ... uses weapons of war against its own people, that is to say, to cause bloodshed, it is not just to make people go home, which is why the people need the international community to help and support them,” said Panahi.“Any silence today, anywhere in the world, will one day have to answer to history,” said the director who last year won the Cannes Film festival's top prize for his drama “It Was Just an Accident.”After demonstrations including protests