Iran’s Khamenei lashes out at protesters as nationwide anti-regime unrest grows

The ruling Ayatollah of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, on Saturday issued an angry response to the unfolding nationwide demonstrations against his regime’s political and economic corruption.

The 86-year-old Khamenei declared in his first public speech since the strikes and social unrest rocked his fragile regime seven days ago that, "A number of agitated people, enemy mercenaries, had positioned themselves behind bazaar merchants and chanted slogans against Islam, against Iran...