The US State Department: “The US will not tolerate massacres in the streets of Iran. The protests reflect the justified anger of the Iranian people with their government's failure to deliver them a better life.

For decades, the Iranian regime has neglected the economy, agriculture, water, and electricity in order to instead squander Iran’s vast wealth on terrorist proxies and nuclear weapons research, all while denying the Iranian people their basic rights.

They want and deserve a better life," it said.