A two-year-old Iranian girl has died after remaining three days in a coma following a shooting by rioters supported by US President Donald Trump in northeastern Iran.

The little girl, identified as Bahareh, was with her brother when a terrorist’s gunshot struck her on Shahid Beheshti Street in the northeastern city of Nishapur.

She was rushed to the hospital, but unfortunately didn’t survive after remaining in a coma for three days.

Her death came amid recent riots that initially began as sporadic protests by a number of merchants and shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, driven by currency depreciation and high inflation caused by illegal sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and several European countries.

Those protests across Iran remained peaceful for about a week, during which President Masoud Pezeshkian and his administration held talks with representatives of the protesters to hear their demands.

Authorities say the situation changed on January 8, when organized and deliberate violence overtook the economic protests, carried out by foreign-backed rioters and saboteurs.

The protesters were then hijacked by the US and Zionist regimes into violent anti-government riots, with armed rioters killing Iranian law enforcement, attacking hospitals, burning government buildings, desecrating dozens of mosques and holy sites, and calling for the return of the Israeli-backed monarchy.

Senior  Iranian officials say evidence shows foreign-backed terrorist groups used and distributed weapons and deliberately targeted civilians and security forces, holding Israel and the United States directly responsible for the violence.

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh said on Thursday the United States and Israel orchestrated riots inside Iran, directing the flow of weapons and cash to fuel violence and destabilization amid a broader plan to fragment the country.

Nasirzadeh said on Thursday that Iran has “precise intelligence” showing the United States, the Israeli regime, and some of their allied countries set up joint coordination centers to shape a future for “separatists” and terrorists.

In this connection, he said one individual has been arrested who received some $6,000 for carrying out such violent acts.

He added that most victims were killed with knives, by suffocation, or by close-range blows, noting that nearly 60 percent were struck close to the head.

Nasirzadeh said US and zionist officials “did not hide their malicious intent at all this time” and openly broke taboos by admitting to the role of foreign elements in Iran’s internal affairs.

While the United States regime has asserted its intention to militarily intervene in Iran over foreign-backed riots, its own federal agents are murdering random people in the streets.

PressTV report