TEHRAN -- President Ebrahim Raisi said Friday the Americans have taken the lives of people wherever they have set foot but they failed to deceive the Iranian nation during the recent riots. Addressing the people of Nehbandan in northeast Iran, Raisi said the enemy made “miscalculations” during the recent sedition. “They imagined that Iran is like other countries and that they can manipulate people by chanting false slogans,” he said. They thought that they can deceive people with the word “freedom” and win the nation’s trust. “To which region in the world have you given life?” Raisi asked. The president said, “There is no need to refer to history books as one can now witness what Western countries did to Afghanistan or Africa or to people of Syria and Yemen.” It was the “vigilance” of the Iranian nation that foiled the enemy’s plots as people stood up with “all of their might to preserve the values of the Islamic Revolution,” said Raisi.