Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards accused on Tuesday foreign media of waging a psychological war to overthrow the clerical establishment and added that they had joined hands with the opposition to harm the Islamic state.

'The ... foreign media ... has staged a psychological war. Trying to overthrow the system will reach nowhere ... designers of the unrest will soon pay the cost of their insolence ... The opposition, which has joined hands with the foreign media, is backed by foreign enemies,' the Guards said in a statement, ISNA reported.-Reuters