Protests ‘under total control’,Iran foreign minister says after deadly crackdown

Dubai: Iran’s foreign minister said Monday that “the situation has come under total control” after a bloody crackdown on nationwide protests in the country.

Abbas Araghchi also said that the protests “turned violent and bloody to give an excuse” for US President Donald Trump to intervene.

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Araghchi offered no evidence for his statements, which came after activists reported more than 500 people in Iran have been killed during the past two weeks of protests — the vast majority of them demonstrators.

Araghchi spoke to foreign diplomats in Tehran. The Qatar-funded Al Jazeera satellite news network, which has been allowed to work despite the internet being cut off in the country, carried his remarks.