“Various security services, Israel and some Western politicians who have made plans for civil war, destruction and disintegration of Iran should know that Iran is not Libya or Sudan,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian tweeted.
Iran on Thursday accused archenemy Israel and Western intelligence services of plotting to start a civil war in the Islamic Republic, now dominated by some of the biggest anti-government groups.
Tehran accuses Western adversaries of stoking unrest across the country, which has been joined by Iranians from all walks of life since the Sept. 16 death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. She died while in custody after morality police arrested her for allegedly violating the strict Islamic dress code.
The activist news agency HRANA said 362 people had been killed in the two-month protests, including 56 children. It also reported that 56 members of the security forces had been killed, in addition to 16,033 people who were arrested.
Women chant slogans and hold up signs depicting the image of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a demonstration denouncing her death by Iraqi and Iranian Kurds outside the UN offices in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on September 24, 2022.
Police Colonel Hassan Yousefi was stabbed to death on Thursday in Sanandaj, a city in the northwestern Kurdistan region, state media reported.
A video released by state news agency IRNA showed protesters attacking a municipal building and other public property in the West Azerbaijan region.
Iran was hit by a series of attacks on Wednesday. Seven people were killed in the southwestern city of Izeh in what state media described as a “terrorist attack.”
Elsewhere, gunmen on a motorcycle shot at several members of the security forces in the central city of Isfahan, killing two people and wounding eight, according to state television.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which state television blamed on the “rioters.”
Amini’s death and the protests that followed drew international condemnation of Iran’s clerical leadership, which has struggled to suppress unrest and blamed foreign enemies and its supposed local agents.
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