Protests erupted in Iran against the emerging agreement with the United States, during which demonstrators chanted slogans against Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, shouting "Death to Araghchi, dishonorable, groveling, and planted," according to Iranian reports.
In the latest turn of a protest wave The Zioneer has tracked since 13 June, demonstrators in Iran have now directly chanted that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is 'dishonorable, groveling, and planted.' The chants appeared inside a new wave of protests against the emerging nuclear deal with the United States. This follows an escalation: by the evening of 13 June (20:01 Jerusalem), reports described pro-regime protesters clashing with security forces in Tehran, with earlier versions of those same rallies targeting both Araghchi and parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. The new slogans are the most personalized yet, singling out the foreign minister for accusations of subservience.
The protests were first reported on 13 June at 20:01 Jerusalem, when a single source described a group gathering outside the Foreign Ministry in Tehran shouting 'Death to Araghchi, the dishonorable compromiser.' Within the same hour, our thread recorded separate reports: one citing Israeli journalist Yaron Schneider (N12) that ultra-conservatives were protesting a reported breakthrough; another describing clashes with security forces; and a third noting chants calling for the resignations of Araghchi and Ghalibaf. Throughout the evening, the source base remained narrow—much of the reporting came from a single tracking channel or opposition-linked accounts, and corroboration by multiple independent newsrooms has not yet been established.
As The Zioneer reported on 12 June, the domestic attacks on Araghchi predate the street protests: an Iranian lawmaker close to the regime publicly criticized the emerging deal as 'a total loss,' and the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency accused the foreign minister of effectively backing the U.S. narrative. Those are signs of a coordinated pressure campaign from within the regime's own ideological camp, not from the opposition.
It remains unclear where inside Iran this latest protest took place, how many people participated, and whether security forces intervened. The only source remains a single Iranian media report; no independent confirmation of the footage or the chants has been published.
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