News brief
The country was largely cut off from the outside world on Friday after authorities blacked out the internet to curb expanding protests, with phone calls not reaching the country, flights cancelled, and online Iranian news sites only intermittently updating. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused protesters of acting on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump, saying rioters were attacking public properties and warning that Tehran would not tolerate people acting as 鈥渕ercenaries for foreigners.鈥 The protests, which began over an inflationary spiral, have not approached the scale of unrest three years ago but have spread across Iran with dozens reported dead.
