Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has accused the US and Western countries of igniting riots in Iran by spreading rumors and misinformation, the Al-Alam TV channel reported on Wednesday.
“The enemies of the Islamic revolution will not achieve their goals and sow discord among the Iranian people by spreading lies,” he said in Tehran during a meeting with the veterans of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. “Young people are our children and all those who were misled will be welcomed by their motherland but there is no mercy for traitors,” he added.
According to the Iranian president, hypocrites, monarchists and counterrevolutionaries, that is, all those against the Islamic Republic were involved in organizing disturbances and unrest that erupted in Iran in mid-September.
On Monday, the Iranian prosecutor’s office reported that 83% of the rioters detained earlier by the police and the security services had been released by the authorities. A statement cited by the Tasnim news agency notes that “over the past three months, judges overseeing the cases of the protesters visited prisons 2,239 times and had personal conversations with the detainees.”
In October and November, the Iranian authorities repeatedly granted pardons to demonstrators who took part in protest rallies in Sanandaj, the administrative center of Kurdistan, and Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province. Groups of protesters were released in the south-western province of Khuzestan, populated by Arab tribes, and in Ardabil where ethnic Azerbaijanis reside.
Source: Agencies
