Iran Intel Services Accuse CIA, Foreigners Of Organizing Protests

The joint statement has introduced Niloufar Hamidi and Elahe Mohammadi, twp women journalists arrested days after protests began in September, as “foreign agents.” They say that Niloufar Hamidi, who published the photo of the deceased Mahsa Amini on a hospital bed, was “among the people trained in special courses abroad.” Amini’s death from severe head trauma in police custody triggered the current popular protests across the country.