A top Iranian official called President Donald Trump's recent tweets on the protests 'absurd.'
Twitter and Facebook were already banned.
This time, however, is different because what we hear is the angry cry of a deprived people, while the movements of the past 40 years have generally been masterminded and guided by a well-organised and experience post-revolutionary reformist movement amongst secular minded urbanites.
Such images only provide a limited view of events on the ground, and can be easily manipulated.
France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the US State Department had planned on putting out a strongly worded condemnation of the Iranian government on Tuesday but that fell apart mainly because of some not wanting to be connected with US policy, diplomats told CNN. "This trend will continue under the current American president and any hopes on their part that the Islamic Republic would back off or weaken is futile". "When cyberspace was closed down, the sedition was stopped".
"You will see great support from the United States at the appropriate time!"
In a state-sponsored show of force aimed at countering the outpouring of dissent, thousands of Iranians also took part in pro-government rallies in several cities on Wednesday morning.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami made the comments while leading Friday prayers in Tehran.
Tens of thousands of government supporters took to the streets across Iran on Wednesday as authorities tried to project a sense of stability after a week of protests sparked deadly clashes and calls for the downfall of the Islamic Republic. He did not elaborate. Demonstrators' videos corresponded with Associated Press reporting from outside of Iran, though individual activists remain unreachable and the protests for now appear leaderless. The app boasts an estimated 48 million users in Iran, more than half the population. They said the US government is still looking at its options at helping open up the internet, although no decision has been taken yet.
Many are keeping a anxious eye on the developments in Iran, uncertain whether the protests will lead to enduring change or remain a short-lived outbreak. The government allowed access to Instagram to resume Thursday.
There were fewer reports of protests across the country and less of a police presence in Tehran on Tuesday night, according to the BBC.
"They launched (social media) campaigns with the theme of "no to high prices", "no to paying bills", he said, adding that the plan was to start unrest in the provinces before moving on to Tehran.
"We are not making any decisions for the Iranian people", she said.
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Iran's UN Ambassador Gholamali Khoshroo said in a letter that the USA government "has stepped up its acts of intervention in a grotesque way in Iran's internal affairs under the pretext of providing support for sporadic protests, which in several instances were hijacked by infiltrators".
As the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism, Iran is well-known for its funding of terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.
The US responded to the recent unrest by calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and by slapping new sanctions on five Iranian companies Washington claims have been working on an illegal ballistic missile program.
"The world should applaud their courage" and amplify their message, Haley said.
American jingoists wrongly conclude that no negotiation with the regime is warranted and that the only prudent policy is regime change in Iran. Surely then, the notion that one country, especially the US, with its troubled history with Iran, can or should deliver democracy to Iran is anathema to the Iranians' dignity and democratic aspirations.
"The president and vice-president of the United States, in their numerous absurd tweets, incited Iranians to engage in disruptive acts", the ambassador wrote to the U.N. Security Council president and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. On Jan. 1, he tweeted: "Iran is failing at every level despite the bad deal made by the Obama Administration".
At least 21 people have been killed in the unrest surrounding the protests, which began last week over rising food prices and soaring unemployment before spreading to cities across almost all of Iran's provinces.
The official said: "The protests were entirely spontaneously generated".
The Trump administration has denied having any hand in fomenting the demonstrations and the Central Intelligence Agency has declined to comment.
On Saturday, Global Affairs Canada released a statement saying "Canada is encouraged by the Iranian people who are exercising their basic right to protest peacefully", and called on Iranian authorities to respect democratic and human rights. They are killing people in the streets.
"If the government has not listened to you for 38 years, your role has come to ignore what the government says to you now", the newspaper quoted the London-based human rights lawyer and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize victor as saying. He also said he believed anyone who burned Iran's flag should be sentenced to death.
Iran has accused Washington of stirring up the protests.
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