Iran’s foreign minister denounces comments by Donald Trump as “reckless and dangerous” after the US president threatened to intervene on behalf of protesters taking to the streets in the Islamic Republic.
“Trump’s message today, likely influenced by those who fear diplomacy or mistakenly believe it is unnecessary, is reckless and dangerous,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi writes on X, insisting the protests were mostly peaceful and pointing to the US leader’s own deployment of the National Guard in US cities.
Conservative cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda said protests over the economy were legitimate, but warned demonstrators they “should not be used as a pretext by the enemy to incite sedition.”
A spokesperson for the US State Department says Washington would “continue to put maximum pressure on the regime” in Iran, accusing Iranian authorities of “squandering billions on terrorist proxies and nuclear weapons research.”
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