Spokesman critisizes EU action as following US policies

Tehran, April 17, IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesman criticized release of a list of names of 32 Iranians by European Union as violators of human rights and said EU action was following US policies.

According to the report of Foreign Ministry Media Department on Saturday afternoon, Ramin Mihman-parast said that the action is an effort to deviate public opinion from notorious and numberless violations on human rights by them in Arab and regional countries and crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Palestine.

He said that inhuman oppression of peaceful demonstration of people in a number of countries and undemocratic law in confrontation with women veil indicates that Europe lacks the qualification in this concern.

He underlined that such acts show that the issue is politicized and that west has dual standard and unacceptable policies.

He recommended that EU, instead of supporting undemocratic regimes and opposition to democratic and independent countries like Iran, respect viewpoints of majority of people in the region and their legitimate demands and do not participate in these oppressions with its silence and take practical steps toward improving its policies./end