Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian remarked that “irresponsible and arbitrary positions and interventions of the U.S. and some [other] Western countries... which were aimed at inciting riots [ie, anti-government protests] in Iran through political means as well as cognitive, media and hybrid forms of warfare represented their maximum effort to destabilise the country… Iran has warned meddlesome parties against any intervention in its domestic affairs and is carefully observing such illegitimate interventions and will give a strong response to them”.