needle. they want to support these anti-government protests but by doing so, as our arwa damon has reported, they're also giving the iranian government a way to criticize the protests, casting the protesters as nothing more than a trump-backed group. president trump is obviously no fan of iran. he ran for president criticizing the nation, has called them the number one supporter of terror. earlier this year, boris, also said he was going to decertify the iranian nuclear deal. >> dan merica reporting from west palm beach. a top iranian official says the government is going to double down on efforts to resolve the country's economic issues without directly acknowledging the protests or what ultimately led to them, rising gas and food prices. following two days of rare anti-government demonstrations in iran, crowds of pro-government supporters took to streets of terrain today, only adding to the chaos and confusion there.