Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei bashed President Donald Trump on Twitter Wednesday for his comments about last weekend's violence in Charlottesville.
The tweet was posted to his official account:
Heather Heyer, 32, of Charlottesville died and 19 others were wounded Saturday when a car allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr. plowed 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 Gen. 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 also died in a helicopter crash relating to the violence.
Trump flipped-flopped several times in his comments about the melee between the nationalists and counter-protesters.
He said Saturday that "both sides" were to blame in the melee — and after coming under bitter attack from across the political spectrum, 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.
"It is clear that religious and racial discrimination, Islamophobia, and xenophobia are a widespread and frequent phenomenon among American politicians," Bahram Ghasemi, a ministry spokesman, said in a statement reported by The Independent.