Checkout the official response published by the state-sanctioned FARS News Agency posted in its entirety at the end of this article from Newsweek:
Iran has acknowledged the series of protests sweeping through the country in the past few days, but came out hard against President Donald Trump’s decision to broadcast support for the demonstrators on Twitter. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi rejected Trump’s Friday night tweet that called on Iranian authorities to respect “peaceful protests by Iranian citizens…
From the FARS News Agency:
The Iranian foreign ministry strongly deplored the recent comments by US President Donald Trump and State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert in support of the recent economic protests in Iran, describing them as “cheap, worthless and invalid”.
“The Iranian people feel no value for the opportunistic claims of the US officials and Mr. Trump, himself,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday.
“Certainly, the great Iranian nation has closely pursued Mr. Trump’s active partnership in violating the Palestinian, Yemeni and Bahraini people’s human rights” and remember his hostile approach towards Iranians’ visit to the US, he added.
“The US officials are not in a position to show sympathy with the great and wise Iranian nation,” Qassemi said.
Trump and Nauert had tweeted in support of the recent economic protests in a number of Iranian towns.
Trump has refused to re-certify a 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers that curbed Iran’s disputed nuclear program in return for a lifting of most international sanctions. Washington has so far violated the deal with regard to its undertakings.
The mainstream media in the West has given a wide coverage to the Friday economic protests in a few Iranian towns that each comprised of a few hundred protesters, but none has covered the massive pro-government rallies held in more than 1,200 cities and towns on Saturday.
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