protesters 7000 arrests and more than 700 banks burned supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei blamed the unrest on a u.s. conspiracy. to me it was a deep extensive and very dangerous conspiracy that cost them so much money and effort. they wanted to use the opportunity to carry out this movement which was an act of destruction arson murder and vandalism under the pretext of a rise in fuel prices they thought they had found the opportunity and brought their troops to the field this move was destroyed by the people let's get more on this from professor natasha lens to head who's a political scientist from the university of essex in culture she has a particular interest to be least politics welcome to d.w. professor we just heard iran's supreme leader blaming the unrest on the united