translated from Spanish: Trump sends message to Iranian regime to respect opposition demonstrations

US President Donald Trump spoke saturday about the recent demonstrations against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the regime admitted to shooting down the Ukrainian plane with 176 people on board on January 8.

“To the brave and suffering Iranian people: I have been with you since the beginning of my presidency and my government will continue to be with you. We’re following your protests closely. His courage is inspiring”, the representative stated through his Twitter account with one message in English and another in Farsi.

And in a third tweet, which he posted 25 minutes after the first, Trump noted that “the Iranian government must allow human rights groups to monitor and report the facts from the ground on the ongoing Iranian protests.” And he warned: “There can be no other massacre of peaceful protesters, no closure of the internet. The world is watching them.”
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For days, Iran claimed that a technical failure caused the crash, but eventually admitted that its own surface-to-air missiles shot down the aircraft.

In addition to the protests in Tehran, social media was filled with commentary and photographs of the victims of this tragedy with the labels #error_humano and #compatriota_asesino, in Farsi.

“Human error? Which one of you is human?” asked an internet user alluding to the Iranian authorities, who to this day denied the hypothesis that a missile hit the plane.

This denial was widely commented on social media, where many expressed that the authorities should have waited for the outcome of the investigations rather than making lies and having assumed responsibility from the outset and not being cornered by complaints from other countries.

Original source in Spanish