Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi visited the province of Kurdistan (northwestern Iran), which is the cradle of the protests that have been going on for more than two months, and announced from there that the Iranian people had thwarted the plans of those he described as enemies.
Raisi said - in a speech he delivered during the inauguration of a project in the city of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Governorate - that his country's enemies had made a mistake in their calculations, and they believed that they would target the country's security and stability through what he described as riots.
He added that these enemies are ignorant that the province of Kurdistan presented thousands of "martyrs", referring to those killed in the war with Iraq between 1980 and 1988.
He added that the new generation in this region will not follow the will of the enemies, especially the United States, as he put it.
The Iranian president referred to the economic and social problems faced by the Iranians, but considered that they know how to confront the enemy with their solidarity, he said.
Iranian officials have repeatedly accused foreign powers - including the United States - of being behind the unrest that erupted in mid-September following the death of Mahsa Amini while she was being held in a center known as the morality police in Tehran, under the pretext of wearing inappropriate clothing.
And the day before yesterday, Tuesday, the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, acknowledged the killing of more than 300 people during the protests that swept most parts of Iran, including the capital, Tehran.