Deputy FM Denounces Britain’s Anti-Iran Report
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian deputy foreign minister censured a recent report published by Britain’s foreign office on Iran, saying such “one-sided” reports seek political intentions.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office published a report about Iran on April 10, in which it has made allegations of human rights violation and restriction of freedom of expression against the Islamic Republic.
The report, titled “Iran – Country of Concern”, also criticizes the process of elections in Iran and raps Tehran for imposing the death penalty.
In reply, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for American and European Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi on Tuesday deplored the British report as “one-sided and biased”.
“Such reports are one-sided and biased, and we regard them as totally rejected and politically-tainted,” he underlined.
The Iranian deputy minister, who is also one of the country's top negotiators in the course of nuclear talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany), made it clear that Britain’s report on Iran will not affect the negotiations.
“The negotiations are moving ahead in their track anyway,” Takht Ravanchi explained.
Delegates representing Iran and the other six nations wrapped up the latest round of their nuclear talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna on April 9.
The two sides are scheduled to meet again on May 13, again in Vienna, to start drafting the text of a final, long-awaited deal on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.
