‘Clinton should focus on violations of intl. law by the CIA’
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks are blatant interference in Iran’s internal affairs, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

The U.S. secretary of state’s remarks about verdicts issued by Iranian courts for certain people arrested during the post-election unrest were based on false information, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast stated.

“It is a very unfortunate, distressing development to see these sentences handed down in Iran, imposing the death penalty on people who participated in expressing their opposition to the government in demonstrating in the streets,” Clinton told reporters in Kabul on Thursday.

Mehmanparast added, “Being a member of a terrorist group and targeting innocent people” are and have been considered crimes in every place and at every time in history.

Those people who call the trials of terrorists a political issue are interfering in Iran’s internal affairs, he observed.

Pointing to the fact that 23 CIA agents have been found guilty of involvement in kidnapping and torturing an Egyptian national, he noted that Clinton ought to shift her concern toward this issue, which was a violation of international law.

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