The riots in Iran were part of the U.S. plan to disrupt negotiations to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA or "nuclear deal"), said General Abdolrahim Mousavi, commander-in-chief of the army of the Islamic Republic, IRIB reports.
"The recent unrest in Iran was part of an American effort to disrupt negotiations in Vienna (on the JCPOA)," Mousavi said,
The unrest in the country, which began in mid-September in the death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was detained by the vice police, has been ongoing for a month and a half. Protests and riots are taking place mainly in the provinces of Gilan, Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Tehran and Kurdistan.
