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FRANCE and Iran clashed over human rights at the United today after Paris condemned the arrest of a French national on espionage charges.
Tehran said that France and other Western countries had “horrific human rights records” due to their complicity in the Saudi-led bombing of Yemen and so were in no position to give lectures on morality.
Mohammad Sadati-Nejad, Iran’s representative at the UN on human rights, was speaking after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused the Iranian government of violating rights and demanded the release of a French-Iranian national being held by Tehran.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
