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## Video: Washington Is Backing Iran's Protestors and Hinting at Fresh Sanctions

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_Published 2018-01-03. The Trump administration on Tuesday threw the weight of the U.S. government behind the protesters taking to the streets of Iran, rooting them on despite the risk of helping Iranian authorities dismiss a week of major demonstration._


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## Transcript

In recent days we have watched widespread protests erupt in many Iranian cities. Years of mismanagement, corruption and foreign adventurism have eroded the Iranian people's trust in their leaders. the Iranian regime spends its people's wealth on spreading militancy and terror abroad rather than ensuring prosperity at home. Prices for every day staples and fuel are rising while the revolutionary guards spent the nation's wealth on foreign militant groups and enrich themselves in the process. The Iranian people are angry at the rising tide of corruption in their daily lives. The people are tired of paying the price for their violent and corrupt rulers As a result, we are now seeing an organic, popular uprising organized by brave Iranian citizens on the largest scale since 2009.

But the international community can not sit silent as it did then. The United States supports the Iranian people and we call on the regime to respect its citizens' basic right to peacefully express their desire for change. America longs for the day when Iranians will take their rightful place alongside the free people of the world. As the President said in October, we stand in total solidarity with the Iranian regime's longest suffering victims, its own people. The citizens of Iran have paid a heavy price with the violence and extremism of their leaders. And the Iranian people long to reclaim their country's proud history, its culture, its civilization and its cooperation with its neighbors.

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