SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The official IRNA news agency reported that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday blamed his U.S. counterpart for inciting “chaos, terror, and destruction” in Iran amid protests that have engulfed the country for the past four weeks.
“The American president, who allows himself through his comments to incite chaos, terror, and destruction in another country, should be reminded of the eternal words of the founder of the Islamic Republic, who called America the great satan,” Raisi said.
“Iran has to end the violence against its own citizens simply exercising their fundamental rights,” U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday.
Iran stepped into one month of protests which have rocked the country since the death of Kurdish Mahsa Amini on September 16 while in the custody of the morality police in Tehran.
The use of violence by Iranian security forces to disperse the demonstrators has been widely condemned by the international community.
