Iran’s regime has warned that security forces will “resolutely confront” protests, saying they could be exploited by the US and other enemies.
Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hosssein Mohseni Ejei put out the message in a Sunday press conference, four months after nationwide protests over economic and political issues and amid ongoing local demonstrations. Earlier this month, at lesat two demonstrators were killed in Kazeroun in southern Iran as protesters set fire to a police station.
Ejei said:
Judicial and security bodies…will resolutely confront any group or individual that want to compromise the country’s security.
I urge families not to let their children be fooled by psychological warfare…launched by the enemy, especially Zionists and Americans, and not let counter-revolutionaries infiltrate crowds of protesters with legitimate demands. These days, Americans and Zionists have become so desperate that they are reaching out to the most despicable individuals and terrorists.
President Hassan Rouhani and his Government have said that they recognize the concerns behind January’s protests, while hewing to the Supreme Leader’s line that the demonstrations were taken over by violent groups supported by foreign elements.
Iran’s fragile economy is facing a new wave of crisis after the Trump Administration withdrew from the nuclear deal beween Tehran and the 5+1 Powers (US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China). Donald Trump’s order, issued on May widely extends existing US sanctions and threatens punishment of any foreign company with American links which is still trading and investing in Iran from November.
See Iran Daily, May 26: Tehran Presses For European Guarantees at Vienna Meeting
Enough of regime happy news…
Just do a search on youtube for “iran truckers strike” see what you find
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India says it only follows U.N. sanctions, not unilateral US sanctions on Iran: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-iran/india-says-it-only-follows-u-n-sanctions-not-unilateral-us-sanctions-on-iran-idUSKCN1IT0WJ
Iranian MPs to Pass Legislation on JCPOA Conditions Set by Leader: https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2018/05/28/1737236/iranian-mps-to-pass-legislation-on-jcpoa-conditions-set-by-leader
“Titled “Receiving Guarantees from Leaders of European Parties to the JCPOA”, the motion requires the administration to obtain the guarantees demanded by Ayatollah Khamenei during the course of negotiations with the remaining parties to the nuclear agreement.”
“President Hassan Rouhani and his Government have said that they recognize the concerns behind January’s protests, while hewing to the Supreme Leader’s line that the demonstrations were taken over by violent groups supported by foreign elements.”
Setting fire to police stations, seminaries, mosques and banks are, of course, acts of violence. Ejei stated the following about the MKO’s role in the recent developments inside Iran: “These days, the great Satan, the US, and certain American and Zionist statesmen threaten Iran and they have grown so desperate that they have resorted to the most hated people and the terrorists, whose hands are stained with the blood of over 17,000 Iranian people, to attain their goals.”
Despite being extremely unpopular, supported only be about 1% of the population, the MKO/MEK has a large network of devout followers inside Iran. There are also violent royalist groups like “Tondar” (Thunder).
Meanwhile, the plan to divide the southern city of Kazeroun, the spark for the protests, has been halted: http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/423681/Division-plan-in-Kazeroun-halted