Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amirabdolahian has accused Western countries of promoting violence during the latest protests in the country and said that several states have reportedly offered «training» for the «manufacture of weapons and Molotov cocktails».
Amirabdolahian told UN Secretary General António Guterres that «in violation of the UN Charter, a few Western countries have acted to incite violence and offer training in the manufacture of weapons and Molotov cocktails» to protesters.
He has also said that these unspecified countries «exploited peaceful demands in Iran, which has resulted in the death of policemen and the creation of insecurity in Iran, to the point of paving the way for an Islamic State terrorist act.»
Amirabdolahian thus linked incidents in protests over the September death in custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested for allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly, to the October attack by the jihadist group on a mausoleum in Shiraz.
In this line, he criticized that some countries «try to convene a meeting of the Human Rights Council on Iran» and stressed that this meeting should take place to address the acts of countries that «incite violence and terrorism».
«Iran is a true defender of Human Rights and has shown great restraint during the recent unrest», he said, amidst the denunciations of NGOs for the death of more than 300 people due to the repression of the demonstrations by Iranian security forces.
The Iranian judiciary recently indicated that more than 1,000 people have been charged so far for their involvement in «unrest» during the protests and vowed to respond «firmly» to the incidents, a day after more than 220 Iranian parliamentarians called on the courts to issue death sentences against protesters and compared them to members of the Islamic State.
