Hosseini rejects claims of Norwegian foreign ministry official

January 6, 2008 - 0:0

TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Saturday strongly rejected recent meddlesome allegations by Norway’s foreign ministry official Raymond Johansen on Iran’s laws and regulations describing them as ‘not conforming to diplomatic norms’ and ‘unacceptable’.

According to the Information and Press Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hosseini described such meddlesome remarks as blatant double standard polices of some western countries in dealing with Islamic values and principles which run counter to the norms of human rights in Iran.
Hasty remarks by Norwegian foreign ministry official in lambasting punitive actions by Iran’s judiciary system which has condemned a murderer is regarded as politically motivated, he said.
“We are sorry to hear that some state officials in Norway have ignored adopting a policy based on facts and respect for the governing laws and regulations in other countries through exerting their views which help promote and courage crimes and wrongdoing in other societies,” he said.
“Unfortunately, dissemination of numerous news on tortures, intrusion into people’s privacy, mobile detention centers, maltreatment of migrants, and religious minorities in Europe as well as savage massacre of innocent women and children in Palestine by the Zionist regime have all proved that officials in western states have adopted an attitude of complete indifference,” Hosseini said.