Even as reports on Wednesday claimed that a US attack on Iran was imminent, Tehran appears to believe it has a free hand to continue a crackdown on the protests.
After ramping up killing over the last week, Iran has now attempted to signal to the US and other countries that it is actually the victim of a foreign plot. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has taken the lead on this messaging.
“Terrorist elements from the outside” were seeking to drag the US into a conflict, he told Fox News.
Iran knows that US President Donald Trump doesn’t want to get sucked into a quagmire.
Araghchi has also reached out to other countries in the region. He was in Lebanon recently and has met with Omani officials. He also reached out to India and spoke on the phone with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday.
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