Donald Trump: Barack Obama’s Nuclear Deal Did Not Help People of Iran

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not address Mr. Trump specifically, but lamented broadly that “enemies of Iran” were meddling in the nation’s affairs.

It said 10 people were killed by security forces during clashes on Sunday night (local time).

Iranian state TV broadcast footage of pro-government demonstrations across the country Wednesday in a move apparently aimed at trying to restore calm following days of deadly violent protests.

The clashes were sparked off as protesters tried to steal guns, according to the reports.

A member of Iran’s paramilitary Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in the town of Najafabad, reportedly by a hunting rifle.

And on Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed Iran’s “enemies” for stirring up unrest in the country, though he didn’t mention Trump by name.

Students protested in a third day of demonstrations, videos on social media showed, but were outnumbered by counter-demonstrators. Musa Ghazanfarabadi, head of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, warned Tuesday that those arrested would face tough punishment.

They have since expanded to cities and towns in almost every province.

At that, Iran’s repressive regime came down hard and violently on the demonstrators.

President Hassan Rouhani, who is a moderate, went on TV Monday and was surprisingly mild in his response.

Turkey says meanwhile it is “concerned” and warns against any escalation.

Other Iranian officials had blamed “foreign agents” and an online “proxy war” waged by the United States, the UK and Saudi Arabia for the violence.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi responded by saying Mr Trump should focus on “the domestic issues of his own country, such as daily killings of dozens of people. and the existence of millions of homeless and hungry people”.

In Tehran alone, 450 protesters have been arrested in the last three days, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

Nikki Haley read out excerpts of chants she said were from Iranian protesters.

“The economic situation is bad, people are suffering, people are not seeing results”, said Ariannejad, who has lived in Canada for about 20 years but has family in Iran.

“We must not be silent”.

“Canada will continue to support the fundamental rights of Iranians, including the right to freedom of expression”.

Rouhani insists people are “absolutely free” to express their anger but “criticism is different to violence and destroying public property”.

The Trump administration has publicly stated it supports the right of protesters to demonstrate peacefully against the Iranian government, and the president himself has weighed in on the uprisings several times over the past few days.

They join Facebook and Twitter in being banned in the country.