In comments on Friday night, Larijani said that the enemies, after failing to defeat Iran during the 12-day imposed war in June 2025, changed tactics and decided to target Iran’s element of strength, namely national unity.
He said the enemies took advantage of the protests held by the business people and bazaar in order to foment violent unrest and transformed the protests into a war by dispatching firearms and Molotov cocktails to streets.
Larijani described the saboteurs and vandals as part of a “quasi-terrorist urban group”, saying the fact that they rushed to storm military and law enforcement centers to acquire weapons indicate that they sought a civil war.
He further emphasized that the Judiciary and the security forces will show no tolerance towards the armed groups seeking to attack military and government centers and disrupt the lives of people.
In remarks on Friday morning, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the vandals have destroyed the buildings of their own country in Tehran and the other cities in order to appease the US president.
“The US president has the blood of more than 1,000 Iranians on his hands,” the Leader said, adding that Donald Trump has confessed that he had ordered attacks during the 12-day war in June 2025 that claimed the lives of over 1,000 Iranians, including military commanders, scientists and ordinary people.
The Leader lashed out at a bunch of unaware people that have been deceived by the US president and have set the garbage cans ablaze to please Trump.
Ayatollah Khamenei made it clear that the Islamic Republic, which has come into being with the sacrifices made by several hundreds of thousands of noble people, will never back off in the face of vandals or tolerate mercenary attitudes towards outsiders.
When a person becomes a mercenary and serves the outsiders, that person will be rejected by the Islamic nation and establishment, the Leader stated.
Ayatollah Khamenei also called on the youth of Iran to preserve preparedness, unity and presence in the scene, stressing that a unified and integrated nation will overcome all enemies.