TEHRAN -- Iran’s top intelligence bodies have issued a joint statement, pointing to the major role of foreign intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, in orchestrating the violent riots in Iran in the past weeks.
In their statement, the Intelligence Ministry and the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) explained different aspects of the recent riots in Iran in detail.
“Continuous and precise” intelligence monitoring in the past year as well as acquired documents during the recent unrest reveals “numerous examples and undeniable references of the all-out role of the American terrorist regime in designing, implementing, and maintaining” the unrest, they said.
The statement further elaborated on the issue by offering facts on three categories “before the unrest,” “during the unrest” and “after the unrest.”
The American regime launched a “pre-planned” project by exploiting the tragic death of Mahsa Amini before the announcement of official investigations, read the statement.
It censured Washington’s exploitation of the tragedy for its political interests despite having a history of ignoring the heinous Saudi crime of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi or the intentional killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akeleh by the Israeli regime.
“Intelligence evidence shows that the CIA had devised an extensive plan with the cooperation of allied spy services and reactionary proxies before the start of the unrest to initiate a nationwide chaos with the aim of committing crimes against the great Iranian nation and the country’s territorial integrity as well as paving the ground for increasing foreign pressures,” it added.
According to available information, the statement maintained, “the CIA played the main role” while closely cooperating with the spy services of the UK, the occupying regime of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The intelligence agencies said the enemies have been waging a “global media war” against Iran, using TV channels and social media.
Twitter and Instagram, they said, ignored their own regulations to pave the way for ramping up the dissemination of “fake news.”
The statement said Twitter allowed opening of 50,000 new fake accounts for Persian language users between September 11 and October 12.
Despite all these efforts, the enemies “failed to attain none of their pre-planned goals,” as the “project of destroying Iran has faced a humiliating defeat,” it added.

On Friday, Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations described the bid by the U.S. and its allies to convene an informal private meeting of the UN Security Council on recent Iranian riots as an attempt to advance their political agenda at the cost of breaching international laws.
“Given the hypocrisy, the use of double standards and selective practice of human rights, we regard American claims in support of Iranian women to be deceptive and lacking in good faith,” the mission said in a statement, stressing that the United States, based on reports by Iran’s intelligence community, was the main suspect behind the recent riots in Iran.
“The United States and its allies have continuously abused such a platform (the UN) to further their political agenda even at the cost of violating international laws and the UN Charter,” the Iranian mission noted.
The United States and Albania which is home to anti-Iran MKO terrorists are due to hold the informal UN Security Council gathering on Wednesday.