Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned President Donald Trump on Twitter Wednesday for his comments about last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville.
The tweet was posted to his official account:
“If U.S. has any power, they better manage their country, tackle #WhiteSupremacy rather than meddle in nations’ affairs. #Charlottesville”
Heather Heyer, 32, of Charlottesville was killed and 19 others were wounded Saturday when a car allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr. hit into a crowd in the city’s downtown mall area. The crowd had spilled into the neighborhood after officials canceled a rally by white nationalists over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.
Fields, 20, of Maumee, Ohio, has been charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death. He remains in jail without bond.
Two Virginia State Police troopers were also killed in a helicopter crash relating to the incident.
Trump didn’t completely denounced the incident between the white nationalists and counter-protesters. He said Saturday that “both sides” were to blame in the incident but later, after he was fiercely attacked for his comments, he slammed the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white nationalists groups on Monday.
Then, on Tuesday, President Trump returned to his original position in a heated session with reporters at Trump Tower in New York City. In addition, Tehran’s foreign ministry slammed the United States over its report on religious freedom, which particularly criticized Iran.
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