Iran Foreign Ministry has slammed the US for making an interventionist statement on the occasion of Yalda Night, saying it is “shedding crocodile tears” for Iranians with its long list of inhumane measures against the nation.
“The US, which supports riots and terrorism and imposes sanctions and maximum pressure against the people of Iran, sheds crocodile tears for Iranians on the night of Yalda,” spokesman Nasser Kanani wrote in a tweet on Wednesday, according to Mehr news agency.
Earlier, the US State Department spokesman Ned Price seized the opportunity of the arrival of the Winter solstice, which is celebrated across Iran as the “Yalda Night”, to once again bring the Islamic Republic’s response to recent foreign-backed riots into question.
“We mourn with the people of Iran, and we reiterate our commitment to the Iranian people,” Ned Price claimed, urging the Iranian authorities “to listen” to the people.
Kanani said the United States has been — foremost among the Western countries — lending support to “anarchy and terrorism.”
“The allies and supporters of known terrorists had better shut their mouths and rather…think about resolving the intense crises facing their own people, their own country as well as the Zionist regime,” the Iranian official said, referring to the Israeli regime, which is the US’s main regional ally.
Iran has been the scene of deadly riots over the past weeks, with foreign-backed rioters seeking to hijack the protests that emerged following the death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini.
She died in police custody in mid-September in an incident, which has been proven to have happened as a result of illness, not through any fault of Iranian law enforcement forces.
Source: Iranian media
