Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the Iranian people had defeated a conspiracy, referring to unrest kicked off by a rise in fuel prices.
"A deep, vast and very dangerous conspiracy that a lot of money had been spent on ... was destroyed by the people," he said, in a comment cited by his official website.
Khamenei described the protests as being orchestrated by "global arrogance," which he uses to refer to the U.S., the AP reported.
