Official says European states not entitled to be concerned about Iran’s human rights situation

Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani said that the European states are not entitled to be concerned about the situation of human rights in Iran.

In a series of tweets on Monday, Bagheri Kani, said: “The basic question is: how can the European States that refuse to provide medicine and bandages needed to mitigate the endless sufferings and pains of butterfly children and cause the death of these innocent children, be concerned about the situation of human rights in Iran?”

He said that the “EU's deafening silence & over-compliance with the U.S. unlawful unilateral sanctions as well as widespread & systematic violations of the human rights of innocent Iranian people,” which has been documented by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights Alena Douhan, “is emblematic of its double standards vis-à-vis human rights.”