The United States will impose 'further costs' on Iran for its lethal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, President Joe Biden announced, drawing accusations of 'hypocrisy' from Iran on Tuesday.
"This week, the United States will be imposing further costs on perpetrators of violence against peaceful protesters," Biden said in a statement. "We will continue holding Iranian officials accountable and supporting the rights of Iranians to protest freely."
Protests also spread to schools, with video footage shared by Kurdish rights group Hengaw showing schoolgirls demonstrating in two cities in Amini's native Kurdistan province. Iran accused the US leader of "hypocrisy" in invoking human rights to impose fresh punitive measures."It would have been better for Mr. Joe Biden to think a little about the human rights record of his own country before making humanitarian gestures, although hypocrisy does not need to be thought through," foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in an Instagram post, reported by Iranian media.
The riots "were engineered by America and the occupying, false Zionist regime, as well as their paid agents, with the help of some traitorous Iranians abroad," Khameni said. Khamenei said "some people, without proof or an investigation, have made the streets dangerous, burned the Koran, removed hijabs from veiled women and set fire to mosques and cars."
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