of the world. Although the US overcame Russian attempts to block a UN security council discussion of the Iranian protests, it lost European support to act against Iran. While the UK, France and Germany agreed with the US on protection of protesters' rights, they used the debate to reject American efforts to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. French representative François Delattre said that the event was not a threat to international peace and security and said, "It is up to the Iranians, and to the Iranians alone, to pursue the path of peaceful dialogue." China, Russia and some other nations considered the protests as internal issue which did not relate to the security council. See also Restart (group) Iran student protests, July 1999 2009 Iranian presidential election protests 2011–12 Iranian protests 2018 Dervish protests 2018 Khuzestan protests 2018 Iranian water protests 2018 Iranian general strikes 2019 Iranian protests Economy of Iran Girls of Enghelab Street History of the Islamic Republic of Iran Internet activism during the 2009 Iranian election protests Water crisis in Iran 2018 protests in Iran References External links 2017 protests 2018 protests December 2017 events in Iran History of the Islamic Republic of Iran January 2018 events in Iran Internet censorship in Iran Iranian democracy movements Presidency of Hassan Rouhani Protest marches 2017-18 2017 in Iran 2018 in Iran Articles containing video clips