Iranian officials angrily slam Trump’s threat to intervene in ongoing protests

Iranian officials have reacted strongly to a threat by US President Donald Trump to intervene in the ongoing protests in the country, which have erupted amid worsening economic conditions, Anadolu reports. In a Friday statement, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Iranians will not allow foreign interference and will resolve their problems “through dialogue and engagement.” “It is enough to review the long record of actions by American politicians undertaken in the name of ‘saving the Iranian people’ to grasp the depth of America’s so-called ‘empathy’ with the Iranian nation,” he said. Baghaei cited as examples the 1953 coup against former Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, the shooting down of an Iranian civilian airliner in 1988, US support for former […]