Demonstrations against "riots" and Tehran vows its opponents "harsh response"

Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami said that the actions against his country would not remain unanswered, vowing that Iran would settle its calculations with everyone later, and warned the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Israel of a harsh response if they cross the red lines.

"We have shown restraint, we have shown patience on the hostile moves of America, the Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia against the Islamic Republic of Iran, but we will destroy them if they cross our red lines," Salami said in a televised address on Monday.

Salami said Washington had invested all its energy to target our country during the recent events but failed, saying that the movements in the streets of the country were run from an operating room inside the White House.

Thousands of Iranians demonstrated in Tehran on Monday to denounce what the demonstrators described as riots, referring to protests in the country over the past few days against the rise in gasoline prices.

In this context, the Iranian Foreign Ministry considered that the pro-government demonstration in Tehran shows the world who are the real Iranians, as she put it.

For his part, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that the support of some countries to the protests in Iran is an interference in Tehran's internal affairs, and comes within the framework of the policy of extreme American pressure.

Moussaoui, at a press conference in Tehran, that his country will submit reports and complaints to the international bodies concerned about these interventions, as he described.

He said that "the support of some countries to the protests in Iran is an interference in our internal affairs, and these positions come within the framework of the policy of maximum pressure on Iran through tightening pressure from within, and we are in the process of submitting reports and complaints to international bodies on these interventions, which were not limited to media support, but was There is security support as well, and the countries that supported the riots in Iran have to take responsibility. "

Peace Initiative
Mousavi also said that three Arab countries welcomed the Iranian president's messages as part of the peace and security initiative in the region.

He added that his country seeks to build stable and good relations with neighboring countries, and these countries should seize this opportunity, as he put it.

Brigadier-General Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, accused the United States of being behind the recent protests in Iran, saying it had not achieved its goals, adding that the detainees had confessed their relationship with America and the organization of the People's Mujahedeen.

He told a news conference in Tehran that the presence of the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf waters was aimed at waging a psychological war against Iran and providing moral support to those he called the troublemakers.

Fadavi said Iran would severely punish the so-called "mercenaries" who had been arrested following a wave of street violence. "We will certainly respond according to their brutality," he said.

The Fars news agency reported on Sunday that 180 leaders of the protests, which witnessed the closure of highways and the burning of banks and police stations and the looting of shops.

An Iranian official said the detainees "made explicit confessions that they were mercenaries to America and others," and explained that they were linked to the Iranian opposition group "People's Mujahedeen", which Tehran considers a terrorist organization.