Iranian security forces have arrested eight people linked to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the recent riots over gasoline price hikes.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has hailed the nation for frustrating enemies’ plots and throwing their weight behind the establishment in the wake of violent riots that recently hit several cities.

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has detailed the scale of damage inflicted on public and private property during violent riots that recently hit several cities.

Meeting with a visiting Taliban delegation, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has voiced Iran’s readiness to help promote intra-Afghan talks aimed at restoring peace and stability to the neighboring war-wracked country.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh underlined that the US sanctions and military option against Iran have both lost effectiveness.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic believes in strong neighborhood policy and aims to pursue the objective.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has lauded the Iranian nation’s tremendous victory in thwarting a “dangerous” enemy plot to take advantage of the government's gas price hike as an opportunity to commit acts of violence and vandalism in line with a subversive agenda.

Six influential individuals who were promoting violence and leading gangs of vandalizers during the past week unrest in Iran have been arrested by the police forces of Tehran province.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says it has summoned Norway’s charge d’affaires to Tehran to strongly protest the recent burning of the Holy Quran by head of an extremist Norwegian group, a move that sparked an outcry in the global Muslim community.

Now that the chaos and violence in Iran has died down, some US politicians have jumped into the fray with their human rights shenanigans to try to stir up more disorder and sustain violence.

The Iranian Judiciary has announced “legal and judicial restrictions” on assets of key figures of so-called Iran International, an adversary Saudi-funded TV channel based in the UK, over attempts to destabilize the Islamic Republic through fueling a recent wave of violent riots in the country.

Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations Kazzem Qaribabadi once again repeated Tehran’s call for total elimination of all kinds of nuclear weapons, adding that the countries which own such weapons are responsible to abide by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

A senior police official in Iran's Southern province of Fars declared detention of 15 ringleaders of the recent riots that ignited after people's peaceful protest rallies against the gasoline price hike.

Deputy Commander of Iran's Law Enforcement Police Brigadier General Ayoub Soleimani announced that his forces continue efforts to identify and arrest the remnants of the ringleaders of the recent riots in the country.

Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi lambasted the UN Security Council formation which mostly serves Westerners’ interests, adding that the current paradigm is facing a legitimacy and credibility crisis that has to be addressed through reforms.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami warned the US, Israel, Britain and Saudi Arabia that they will face a crushing response and annihilation if they cross Iran's redlines.

The Norwegian chargé d’affaires in Tehran was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry ‎following a derogatory act of an extremist to set the Holy Quran on fire and he was notified ‎of Iran’s objection to the move in this regard.‎

Ayatollah Khamenei stated, “Both friends and foes should know that we have repelled the ‎enemy in the war in military, political and security issues.”‎

Hundreds of thousands of government supporters rallied across Iran on Wednesday, ‎swearing allegiance to the Islamic Republic and the Leader and voicing opposition and ‎condemnation of the recent riots.‎

Nearly 80 chain stores in Iran have been ransacked and destroyed from 50% to 100% by ‎the rioters who misused people’s peaceful protests against the government’s gasoline price ‎hike plan.‎