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Iran's Khamenei calls anti-government protests "scattered riots" designed by the enemy - Tasnim

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with the members of the Expediency Discernment Council in Tehran, Iran October 12, 2022. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

Iran's Supreme Leader called anti-government protests "scattered riots" designed by the enemy, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.

"These scattered riots are the passive and clumsy design of the enemy against the great and innovative developments and movements of the Iranian nation," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.

Protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who died in the custody of the morality police, have spread across Iran for the last four weeks.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with the members of the Expediency Discernment Council in Tehran, Iran October 12, 2022. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom)

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