TEHRAN -- Iran on Sunday hit out at the U.S. for meddling in its domestic affairs after President Joe Biden voiced support for riots in the country.

“On Saturday, Biden interfered for the umpteenth time in Iran’s state matters by supporting the riots as he has done ever since the outbreak of recent developments in Iran,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said.

“Given the fact he enjoys neither trusted advisers nor a good memory, I remind him that Iran is so strong and steadfast to be swayed by his cruel sanctions and idle threats. It is also too proud to be unfazed by the interventions and exclamations of a politician tired of years of a futile campaign against Iran.”

Biden said on Saturday that “he was surprised by the courage of the people taking to the streets in protest in Iran.”

Biden’s Treasury Department announced sanctions against Iran’s Morality Police as well as some top-level government officials in late September.

“Since the 1953 coup d’état, the anti-Iranian policies of the U.S. administrations have been recorded in our minds. Meanwhile, history and the whole world will testify to the wounds that American crimes and violence has inflicted” on world nations, Kanaani said.

The spokesman said the Americans “are accustomed to fishing in troubled waters”.

The U.S. and Europeans have pounced on the death of a young Iranian woman to stir riots and violence in Iran.

An investigative report by the Iranian parliament released on Sunday concluded that Mahsa Amini’s death was not linked to physical assault and battery.

According to the report, the 22‐year‐old woman was neither assaulted during her transfer to the police center in the capital Tehran, where she fell into a coma nor hit while being held there.

The findings, however, question the effectiveness of the first medical response she received.

The report asserts that the crowd outside the police station could have delayed her transfer to a nearby medical center.

The parliament report has called on those who jumped to conclusions about the cause of Amini’s death to rectify their position or face prosecution.

It said the United States, the occupying regime of Israel and their acolytes took advantage of hasty judgments to stir unrest.

Earlier, the Iranian Coroner’s Office had also announced that Amini’s death was not due to blows to her head or any of her vital organs, but because of cerebral hypoxia, and multiple organ failure.

 

 Calm Restored to

 Evin Prison 

 

The Iranian judiciary said Sunday the situation at Tehran’s Evin prison was “completely normal” after a large fire broke out in one of its workshops.

The media center of the judiciary, cited by Iran’s official news agency IRNA, said the blaze erupted in one of the tailoring workshops of the prison following clashes between a 

number of prisoners convicted of financial crimes and theft.
“Shortly after the conflict and the fire at the workshop, the prison’s security officers embarked on taking control of the clashes, and the fire station located in the prison immediately started the fire extinguishing operation and the fire has been contained and put out,” the center said.
Other reports said police helped the prison’s security guards establish restore peace as quickly as possible.
The center said the prisoners were allowed to call their families after the incident to reassure them of their safety.
The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said four inmates lost their lives “due to smoke inhalation” and 61 others were injured. It said up to 70 inmates were rescued by security forces.
Anti-Iran media outlets swiftly linked the fire to protests over the death of Amini, an Iranian woman of Kurdish descent, who fainted at a police station after her arrest and died days later at the hospital in the capital last month.
The incident sparked peaceful protests in some cities but foreign-backed elements took advantage of the situation to incite violence, marked by violent attacks on security forces and torching of public property, mosques and ambulances.