“Following the failure of America in militarization and sanctions, Washington and its allies have resorted to the failed policy of destabilization,” Raisi said at a summit in Kazakhstan, according to his office.
Iranians have “invalidated the American military option and… dealt a humiliating defeat to the policy of sanctions and maximum pressure,” he said.
Protests swept across at least 19 cities in Iran on Wednesday, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Amini after being detained last month by the country’s morality police, even as security forces targeted demonstrators in the streets, activists said.
The protests over the death of Amini have become one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the country’s 2009 Green Movement. Demonstrators have included oil workers, high school students, and women marching without their mandatory headscarf, or hijab. READ MORE
