Iranian Nation Thwarted Plots to Stoke Insecurity Across Country

President Ebrahim Raisi said the enemy made a “miscalculation” by instigating the recent riots over the death of a young woman of Kurdish descent in Iran, but the Iranian nation thwarted their plots to stoke insecurity and chaos across the country.  
Raisi made the remarks in a Thursday visit to Iran’s western city of Sanandaj, Kurdestan’s provincial capital, where protests initially broke out after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in Tehran on September 16.
Amini died in hospital three days after she collapsed in a police station. An investigation attributed her death to medical condition, dismissing allegations that she had been beaten by police forces.
In the past two months, many Iranian cities have been the scene of violent clashes between rioters and security forces.
“In the recent events, counterrevolution elements made a scandalous miscalculation as usual as part of their continued [acts of] betrayal, and other crimes were added to their past record of betrayals,” Raisi told people in the Kurdish city, President.ir reported.
“They thought that they could achieve their malicious goals by creating chaos, insecurity and terrorist acts, but they were dismissive of the fact that the noble people of Kurdestan have had … thousands of martyrs in the revolution,” the president noted, referring to the 1980-1988 war imposed by Iraq on Iran.
Stressing that the Iranian people foiled the enemy’s plots in the recent riots, Raisi said, “The new generation [of youths] … will not be back down in the face of the enemies.”
The top official said the counterrevolution agents sought to stoke insecurity under the pretext of economic hardships, but they were unaware that “the people of this land have always maintained their cohesion and unity, and Shias and Sunnis have lived alongside for years.”

Fast-Moving Train 

Raisi said the Iranian nation will never stop making progress although the enemy is trying to create unrest and insecurity. “The ill-wishers want to stop the fast-moving train of the country’s progress.”
Raisi underlined that the enemy is enraged by Iran’s “scientific developments, universities, nuclear [technology], defense industries, science, technology, relations with neighboring countries and the world, oil and non-oil exports, [and] our share in the trade and economy of the region.”
In another development on Thursday, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said Iran is on the path to progress and that one of the enemies’ plots is to “sow the seeds of sedition in the hearts of the Iranian youths.”
Addressing an event in Shiraz, the capital city of the southern Fars Province, Major General Hossein Salami pointed to anti-Iran conspiracies and said the Iranian nation will become more determined to safeguard what it has achieved so far and take further steps in the path to progress.
“Today, we are on the path to conquer great peaks and we will not stop… This nation is strong and powerful, they want us not to make progress, not to have missiles, not to send satellites into space, not to build refineries and power plants, and they say we will give you whatever you want, but we do not want that Iran,” Salami said.
“We want an independent, powerful Iran that can meet all its needs and defend its dignity, honor and national values and restore the rights of the oppressed people from the arrogant powers,” he noted.
Stressing that the US and Israel are acting behind the scenes and playing the main role in directing the riots in Iran to achieve their own goals, Salami said, “The Iranian nation will, however, stand up firm and not back down.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s intelligence forces in Fars Province revealed on Thursday that security forces had arrested those who sought to carry out a bombing the night of the terrorist attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in Shiraz.
The apprehension, as intelligence forces said, came after public reports about a “suspicious package” that was sighted in one of the main roads of Shiraz on the night of the terrorist attack on October 26, shortly after which a disposal team arrived at the scene and neutralized it.
The perpetrators of the bombing were identified and arrested during a hunt in the provinces of Esfahan and Fars, Iran’s intelligence forces were quoted as saying by Fars News Agency.