Tehran reacts to H. Clinton’s recent remarks

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast reacted to the recent remarks made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding Iran’s domestic issues.

In answer to a question by a reporter on the position of the Iranian Foreign Ministry about the recent remarks of Hillary Clinton on Iran’s domestic affairs and a number of verdicts issued by the Iranian Judiciary, he said on Sunday that the comments of the US secretary of state were seemingly based on wrong information which neglected the actions perpetrated by the accused people.

He said membership in a terrorist group which targeted innocent people was undoubtedly a clear case of illegal act which was regarded as a criminal act in every setting.

He said all international judicial systems including the United Nations documents dealt with such behaviors in an identical manner while every single world country, too, treated them according to their own consitituions.

Labeling a member of a terrorist group as a political activist was not only a clear case of interference in a country’s domestic affairs but was in fact unacceptable as a double-standard and failed policy.

Referring to the verdict against 22 members of the US Central Intelligence Service in Milan for involvement in abduction and torture of an Egyptian civilian which proved America’s anti-human rights attitudes, the spokesman recommended Mrs. Clinton to more focus on the performance of US officers in different parts of the world which were against the international laws.

He believed the US secretary of state should really try harder to turn the current year into a year which would mark the end of the systematic violation of human rights by the American administration in the Guantanamo Bay.

He also said respect to the rule of law and independence of judiciary were among the inalienable basics of international laws which diplomats all over the world were expected to respect them.

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