JAKARTA - Tehran blames Washington for triggering protests and encouraging instability in the country.
This was conveyed by the Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations (UN), Amir Saeid Iravani, in his letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
In the letter, Iravani stressed that Iran condemned "the ongoing, unlawful, and irresponsible actions of the United States (US), carried out in conjunction with the Israeli regime, in interfering in Iran's internal affairs through threats, incitement, and deliberate encouragement of instability and violence."
As reported by ANTARA from Sputnik, Saturday, January 10, Iravani also alluded to the change in peaceful demonstrations in Iran into riots accompanied by vandalism.
Protests in Iran began in late December as the local currency, the Iranian rial, weakened. Protesters are protesting the sharp fluctuations in the exchange rate and their impact on prices at the wholesale and retail levels.
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Iranian authorities amid the wave of protests.
On Friday (9/1), Trump said Washington would intervene and would "hit them very hard in the most painful point" if protesters were killed in riots in Iran.
Earlier on the same day, Iranian media reported damage to both private and state property in Tehran.
The mayor of Tehran Alireza Zakani also mentioned attacks by participants in public riots on January 8 against security facilities, the burning of buses and fire trucks, and attacks on banks.
Meanwhile, state television reported casualties in the incident, but did not specify which party they came from.
On Friday evening, Iranian police spokesman Saeed Montazer Al-Mahdi said the situation across Iran had returned to a conducive state, a day after widespread public unrest.
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