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Tehran raps G7 ‘duplicitous approach’ toward human rights
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said the G7, influenced by American propaganda and the Israeli regime, knowingly ignores the fact that Iran’s peaceful protests were driven to violence through the entry of organized elements of terrorists equipped by Israel between January 8 and 10.
The statement added that a large number of protesters, police, and law-enforcement officers were attacked, killed and wounded during the same period.
“The explicit statements and remarks by current and former American officials, as well as Zionist regime’s officials, encouraging violence and slaughter of the people, alongside solid documents collected by security authorities, indicate the direct role of the Israeli regime in equipping and organizing armed terrorists and US support for them,” it added.
The Foreign Ministry said the Islamic Republic with all its power will undertake the responsibility to protect the security of its citizens and public order against “imported terrorism,” and also to defend the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran against any foreign threat or aggression.
The statement also referred to the G7 member states’ “shameful record of gross human rights violations in their own countries and the West Asia region,” saying that they lack “any legitimacy or moral standing to judge others.”
“Undoubtedly, the collective memory of the Iranian nation will not forget the support by American, German, British, Canadian authorities, and some other G7 members for the Zionist regime’s military aggression against Iran and the slaughter of hundreds of Iranians in June 2025,” it added.
The Foreign Ministry concluded that instead of issuing “deceptive and interfering statements,” the G7 members should stop meddling in Iran’s internal affairs, end the “unjust and illegal sanctions” against the Iranian nation, and refrain from exploiting the noble concepts of human rights as a cover for intervention in Iran’s internal affairs and for provoking violence and terrorism.