US, “Israel” Establish Task Force to Internally Pressure Iran

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The Zionist entity and the US set a joint working group put pressure on Iranian establishment under a plan, which would be especially focused on attempts to encourage anti-government protests inside the country over economic issues, “Israeli” media reported.

A Zionist official claimed the task force is not meant to topple the Iranian government as “no one thinks” that can be done, “Israeli” Channel 10 news reported Tuesday without identifying the source.

Rather, the official alleged, it is aimed at exerting pressure on the Iranian government from the inside to force the authorities in Tehran to “change their behavior.”

The task force has met several times over the last few months, and links its activities to recent anti-Iran attempts by “Israeli” and American officials on social media, including those by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the report added.

In the same respect, US National Security Adviser John Bolton and his Zionist counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat, recently discussed in Washington the issue of turning up the heat on Tehran, the report added.

Earlier this month, a group of businesspeople in Tehran Grand Bazaar shut down their businesses in protest at the country’s economic issues as well as foreign exchange problems -- which are mainly rooted in Washington’s hostile policies toward Iran, particularly the re-imposition of economic sanctions on Iran after leaving the 2015 nuclear deal.

Soon afterwards, however, calm returned to the bazaar and shop owners opened their shops to resume activities.

Pompeo sought to link those guild-related protests in Tehran to the Iranian establishment’s policies, taking to Twitter to predict more protests in the Islamic Republic over what he claimed to be Iran’s nuclear agenda.

For his part, however, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hit back at Pompeo for his interventionist remarks, reminding the US of the negative impacts of its own destructive foreign policies on the lives of American people.

Netanyahu also posted a video on Twitter, attempting to highlight the water shortage in some parts of Iran and offering “help” over the issue.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team