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Iran slams Clinton's human rights remarks

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

1389/12/10
03-01-2011
11:44:31
News Code :8912-06610

TEHRAN (ISNA) - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday that Iran allows no country to meddle in its domestic affairs.

His remarks came following comments of the US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Iran's human rights and the government's confrontations of opposition groups.

"Unfortunately, I should say that political approach and dual-track behavior of European officials' on human rights has been turned into an element to undermine human rights principles," Mehmanparast told reports at a regular weekly briefing.

"Everybody remembers remarks of Clinton a couple of months ago that how she supported Hosni Mubarak's regime and called it a stable government," he added.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman then criticized the US recent military's action in Afghanistan led to death of over 80 civilians mostly children.

As to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recent report on Iran's enrichment work, he said, "the story of alleged studies is an old and repetitious one which builds on no lawful status and legal document and goes against the approach should be taken by the IAEA towards its member states."

Regarding arrest of Iranian opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi on Monday night, he said, "the issue is a domestic one and that no country is permitted to interfere in our national matters."

He added their cases would be pursued under legal framework by Iranian Judiciary.

Mehmanparast then condemned inhumane violence against Libyans.

"We hope unpopular rulers will leave the scene wisely and do not let their countries be destroyed or their people be killed in inhumane ways."

He added, recent developments in some countries including in Libya should not be turned into an excuse for military interference of western countries to make soil of the countries their military base.