Iran Lashes Out at Its Enemies, at Home and Abroad, Amid Protests
Whatever Mr. Ahmadinejad’s role, Iran’s reformist faction has accused hard-liners in the city of Mashhad of
organizing the first protests to create political problems for Iran’s moderate president, Hassan Rouhani.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations also sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday complaining
about "acts of intervention" by the administration, citing President Trump’s Twitter posts in support of the protests.
The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia planned the "riots" to "subvert the Iranian
government," the prosecutor, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, said on state television.
Iranians said that We condemn in the strongest possible terms the deaths to date and the arr
And hard-liners have, in turn, accused Mr. Rouhani of leaking secret parts of his proposed budget, including details
of the country’s religious institutes, in a calculated move to turn ordinary people against religious institutions.
" Mr. Montazeri said. that The U.S., the Zionist regime
and the Al Sauds were the three sides of this subversive plan, and Saudi Arabia committed to provide money for it,