FM: There’s evidence linking deadly violence in Iran to Mossad terrorists

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says there is clear evidence linking the deadly violence in Iran to terrorists associated with Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

Araghchi was referring to a social media post on Sunday by former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in which he mentioned Mossad agents walking the streets of Iran.

Araghchi said that Iranian police officers were being executed by actual terrorists, overseen by what Pompeo has openly identified as Mossad agents, who have been seeking to turn economic protests across Iran into unrest.

The top Iranian diplomat questioned whether the US government would tolerate such brutality within its own borders.

Araghchi also pointed out that the Trump administration fully endorsed police brutality in the US, labeling it “self-defense,” while calling on other countries to remain silent about violent rioters.

He referenced the killing of a young woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, where Trump supported the agent, labeling the victim a “domestic terrorist.”

The Department of Homeland Security threatened Americans that "if you lay a finger on a federal officer or agent, you will face the full extent of the law," Araghchi noted.

In a post on X on Saturday, Araghchi warned the United States and the Israeli regime about the consequences of their support for the rioters.

According to Araghchi, the admission that was made by Pompeo in a post on X earlier this month debunks the US administration’s allegations against the Islamic Republic of being “delusional” in citing Tel Aviv and Washington’s involvement.

“President Trump's own former CIA Director has openly and unashamedly highlighted what Mossad and its American enablers are really up to,” the foreign minister wrote.

Amid the situation, it is rather the US and the Israeli regime, which are “delusional,” he pointed out, saying the delusion featured the allies’ believing that “arson does not ultimately [burn] arsonists.”

On Sunday, Iran’s National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani said a “destructive and organized network” infiltrated recent riots and carried out violent acts in Iranian cities resembling tactics used by Daesh terrorists.

Larijani told the Tasnim news agency on Sunday that the violent riots of recent days must be clearly separated from legitimate protests over economic hardship.

The security chief warned that a separate group had taken advantage of the demonstrations to commit “extremely violent and criminal acts,” including killings and burnings that he compared to tactics used by terrorist organizations such as Daesh.

Tasnim earlier reported that 109 security personnel had been killed in the riots across the country.

In a televised interview addressing the Iranian nation, President Masoud Pezeshkian said the government was there to listen to legitimate public grievances, but noted that there was a difference between protesting and violent rioting.

Pezeshkian ⁠warned that the United States and Israel were leading the violence as they ⁠seek to “sow chaos and disorder.”

• President calls on citizens not to let ‘rioters and terrorists’ destabilize Iran

He called on Iranian citizens to distance themselves from “rioters and ‌terrorists,” killing people and burning public and private properties.

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