MADRID, 11 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, has accused Western countries of promoting violence during the latest protests in the country and has said that several states have offered “training” for the “manufacturing of weapons and Molotov cocktails”.
Amirabdolahian has transferred to the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, that “in violation of the UN Charter, a few Western countries have acted to incite violence and offer training in the manufacture of weapons and Molotov cocktails” to the protesters.
It has also said that these unspecified countries “exploited peaceful demands in Iran, which has resulted in the death of police officers and the creation of insecurity in Iran, to the point of paving the way for an Islamic State terrorist act.”
Amirabdolahian has thus linked the incidents recorded in the protests over the death in custody in September of Mahsa Amini, arrested for allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly, with the attack perpetrated in October by the jihadist group against a mausoleum in Shiraz.
Along these lines, he criticized the fact that some countries “try to convene a meeting of the Human Rights Council on Iran” and stressed that this meeting should take place to address the acts of countries that “incite violence and terrorism”.
“Iran is a true defender of Human Rights and has shown great restraint during the latest disturbances,” he settled, amid NGO complaints about the death of more than 300 people due to the repression of the mobilizations by of the Iranian security forces.
The Iranian judicial apparatus recently indicated that to date more than a thousand people have been charged for their participation in “riots” in the framework of the protests and promised to respond “firmly” to the incidents, a day after more than 220 parliamentarians Iranians asked the courts to hand down death sentences against the protesters and compare them to members of the Islamic State.
