CIA, Israel, Saudi stoking violent protests in Tehran —Iran’s chief prosecutor

Iran’s prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has accused CIA, Israel, Saudi of fueling violent anti-government protests that have swept through the country and left as much as 22 people dead and many others injured.

According to Iran’s prosecutor, the CIA agent was the “main projector” of deadly demonstrations in Iran with assistance from Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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Planning for the plot – dubbed “Consequential Convergence Doctrine” – was initiated four years ago by an operative from the Central Intelligence Agency, Montazeri was quoted as saying via the state-run IRNA news agency.

However, thousands have continued to march through the streets to protests against rising food and fuel prices.

The demonstrations which has been largely violent has thus far claimed many lives with state media reporting the arrests of at least 530 people: 450 in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and 80 in the central city of Arak.

 

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