Iran has warned Britain it will “pay\u201d for what it labelled its actions to destabilise the Islamic republic in the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini\u2019s death, state media reported today.<\/P>
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Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib also accused Iran\u2019s major regional rival Saudi Arabia of financing media outlets behind the wave of unrest, now in its eighth week, state news agency IRNA reported.<\/P>
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Iran says Britain harbours hostile Persian-language media reporting on the protests sparked by the death of Amini, 22, following her arrest by the morality police for an alleged breach of Iran\u2019s dress code for women.<\/P>
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“In recent events, the involvement of the British in the propaganda, and the Saudi regime in the financing, was more than obvious,\u201d the minister was quoted as saying.<\/P>
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“Unlike Britain, we will never support terrorist acts and insecurity in other countries, but we will have no obligation to prevent the emergence of insecurity in these countries,\u201d he said.<\/P>
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“Thus the United Kingdom will pay for its actions to make Iran insecure.\u201d<\/P>
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Khatib said the London-based, Persian-language TV channel Iran International had been declared a “terrorist organisation\u201d whose “agents will be prosecuted by the intelligence ministry\u201d.<\/P>
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Dozens of people, mainly demonstrators but also members of the security forces, have been killed in the wave of protests, which Iranian authorities call “riots\u201d, and in the state\u2019s crackdown on them.<\/P>
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Iran\u2019s foreign ministry early last month summoned the UK ambassador to protest “the interference of the British Foreign Office in the internal affairs of Iran, by resorting to false and provocative interpretations\u201d.<\/P>
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Source: National News Agency – Lebanon<\/P>
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