Khamenei calls millions of pro-democracy protesters the 'enemy'

AFP
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in his new year message to the nation on Saturday that Iran had defeated 'enemies' last year who plotted against the Islamic revolution.
'The enemy of the Islamic republic, after a lapse of 30 years, concentrated all its efforts so that it could defeat the revolution from inside,' Khamenei said in a message broadcast on state television.
'But the Iranian nation, with exceptional resistance, alertness and determination, defeated the enemy's plots'.
Khamenei has regularly blamed foreign powers, especially the United States and Britain, for the deadly unrest which erupted after the re-election last June of President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad.