Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei says Trump responsible for killings, damages during Iran unrest

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that US President Donald Trump is the “main culprit” behind the casualties and damage caused during recent protests across the country, Anadolu reports. Speaking to a gathering in the capital Tehran, Khamenei said that during the recent “sedition,” the US president intervened personally and “issued threats, and encouraged and supported the seditionists.” “I say this firmly that America’s goal in the recent sedition was to swallow up Iran,” he said. Anti-government protests over the deteriorating economic situation and a record depreciation of the national currency, the rial, broke out in Tehran late last month and gradually spread to other cities across Iran. On Jan. 8, the protests took a violent turn […]