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Houthi leader blames Iran protest on ‘American-Israeli scheme’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAbdul Malik al-Houthi, leader of the Iran-backed Yemeni rebel group, claims “criminal gangs” are responsible for the situation in Iran, accusing them of carrying out an “American-Israeli” scheme.
“Criminal gangs in Iran killed Iranian citizens, security forces and burned mosques,” he says without providing evidence. “What’s being committed by criminal gangs in Iran is horrific, bearing an American stamp as it includes slaughter and burning some people alive.”
He also says that the US imposed economic sanctions on Iran to create a crisis, leading to the current issues in the country, with the end goal of controlling Iran.
Yet he said the US has “failed in Iran” and that Iranians “will not yield to America.”
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