Larijani brands Trump, Netanyahu as ‘true killers’ of Iranians
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were the “true killers” of Iranian people and would be held to account for the merciless violence perpetrated by rioters in two weeks of unrest across the country.
In a post on his X handle, Ali Larijani rebuked Trump for threatening the Islamic Republic and encouraging violence against Iran’s top government and security echelon following the foreign-backed protests.
The US president called on Iranian people to “keep protesting,” and “take over your institutions,” as those confronting the riots would “pay a big price.”
Denouncing the stances of Trump, who also called Iranians to “save the names of the killers and abusers,” Larijani said, “We announce the names of the true killers of the Iranian people: 1. Donald Trump; 2. Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Over the past two weeks, armed groups and rioters seized on the rightful demands of Iranian grassroots protests against livelihood woes stemming from the national currency depreciation.
The riots — prompted by western and Zionist intrigues — inflicted hefty collateral and infrastructural damage on the country.