Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has yet again denounced america amid his country’s persevering with anti-authorities protests. The president visited Tehran University on Wednesday morning, wherein he brought a speech to mark Students’ Day, and reiterated that there has been a difference among protests and “riots” – a phrase government often use to explain the country’s unrest, which has lasted near to 3 months. The Americans are after destruction and need a destroyed Iran in place of a sturdy Iran, he stated. They need right here to emerge as Syria and Afghanistan, however they have got made a mistake of their calculations and the knowledgeable Iranian ladies and men won’t permit them.

Raisi cited a go to he made closing week to the protest-heavy province of Kurdistan, wherein cameras captured him being welcomed through a nearby keep proprietor in a market with chocolates. A video later broadly circulated on social media wherein the person is visible apologising for greeting the president. You noticed a person supplied me chocolates. The matters they did to that bad man! Raisi stated You communicate approximately the difficulty of dictatorship. Who’s the dictator? The one that imposes such a lot of sanctions in opposition to this country,” he introduced in connection with the United States, which has imposed harsh sanctions on the grounds that 2018 after retreating from Iran’s 2015 nuclear cope with global powers.

The president’s go to got here at the 0.33 and very last day of national protests and moves that had been known as anonymously on lin Videos of sporadic protests have pop out of Tehran and numerous different towns withinside the beyond few days amid lingering net regulations. Raisi stated on Wednesday the regulations are a reaction to “disturbances and lack of confidence created through enemies” and modifications might be made when “secure conditions” are restored.

Meanwhile, many films had been posted on line of closed stores in towns throughout the country, that have been countered through many films launched through state-affiliated media shops that confirmed stores had been open. Authorities have time and again claimed that “anti-revolutionary” factors pressure shopkeepers to shut down their groups with threats of bodily violence. The president additionally made this declare at some stage in his college speech.

Many stores, inclusive of numerous owned through soccer legend Ali Daei, had been close down through the government for becoming a member of the moves. Other senior officers, inclusive of judiciary leader Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani visited diverse universities on Tuesday.

Zakani’s go to to the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran changed into possibly the maximum arguable and confrontational, as he changed into closely criticised through college students who known as him “corrupt”. When a scholar stated “we need to make a revolution however you won’t permit us”, Zakani sarcastically replied, “that’s child’s play, whilst you need to talk of revolution rub your throat properly so it won’t get caught in there”.

The country’s protests started quickly after the September sixteen dying of Mahsa Amini, a younger Kurdish female who changed into arrested through morality police for allegedly now no longer adhering to Iran’s obligatory get dressed code. A senior judiciary authentic stated closing week that the morality police have been suspended, however there was no affirmation through police government and no indication that legal guidelines requiring obligatory hijab might be changed.

Iran has stated 2 hundred humans had been killed at some stage in the unrest, that is decrease than the extra than four hundred parent referred to through some of foreign-primarily based totally rights organisations, who say Iranian safety forces have killed protesters. Foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian claimed on Tuesday at some stage in a ride to Bosnia and Herzegovina that “police in Iran have now no longer shot everybody and nobody has been killed due to taking pictures or disagreement with police or safety forces”.

However, the sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei on Wednesday condemned the crackdown on protesters, consistent with a letter launched through her son. Badri Hosseini Khamenei additionally stated that the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards should “lay down their weapons … and be a part of the humans”.

“I assume it’s far suitable now to claim that I oppose my brother’s movements and I explicit my sympathy with all moms mourning the crimes of the Islamic Republic, from the time of [former Supreme Leader Ruhollah] Khomeini to the cutting-edge generation of the despotic caliphate of Ali Khamenei,” Badri Khamenei, who nevertheless lives in Iran, stated withinside the letter posted on her France-primarily based totally son’s Twitter account.

Dictated through CIA

In addition to the United States, pinnacle Iranian officers retain to accuse different Western international locations of being at the back of the unrest in Iran. In an interview with state-run IRNA posted on Wednesday, intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib handiest had harsh phrases for European leaders. About French President Emmanuel Macron, Khatib stated “it’s far now no longer essential for the United States president to present him directions, due to the fact a corrupt, low-tier CIA intelligence supply dictates what he have to say and what positions he have to adopt”. He additionally criticised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his remarks in aid of the protests and in opposition to the Islamic republic, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for tweeting approximately a fake declare that Iran should imminently execute 15,000 humans arrested at some stage in the protests.

While the 15,000 parent changed into fake, Amnesty International warned in advance this month that at the least 28 humans should face execution in Iran in reference to the protests, saying “government use the dying penalty as a device of political repression to cease the famous uprising”. On Tuesday, 5 humans had been sentenced to dying and eleven others – inclusive of 3 minors – obtained prolonged jail phrases for allegedly killing a member of the Basij paramilitary pressure at some stage in unrest withinside the town of Karaj closing month.

Their sentences are initial and may be appealed, the judiciary stated. However, judiciary leader Mohseni-Ejei had stated in advance this week that “some” of the preceding dying sentences doled out for “corruption on Earth” and “waging strugglefare in opposition to God” with regards to the protests had been upheld through the Supreme Court and “might be completed soon”. Iran on Sunday completed 4 humans and exceeded jail sentences to 3 others accused of operating with Israeli intelligence.