Iran strongly condemns Trump tweet over economic protests

The United States, which bans Iranians from entering, should not pretend that it cares about their plight now, charged an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Saturday, in response to a warning from U.S. President Donald Trump over protests across Iran.


"The Iranian people will not pay any heed to these worthless and opportunistic remarks from the United States," said foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi.

Reports of anti-government protests in at least six Iranian cities on Friday prompted Trump to warn Tehran that "The world is watching!"

"Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime's corruption & its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad," Trump wrote on Twitter.
 [dailysabah.com]
 30/12/17
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