US says Basij chief cannot preach human rights while Iran represses protesters
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The US State Department accused Basij paramilitary chief Hossein Taeb of hypocrisy on human rights after he appeared at a film festival in Tehran and spoke about non-interference…
The US State Department accused Basij paramilitary chief Hossein Taeb of hypocrisy on human rights after he appeared at a film festival in Tehran and spoke about non-interference while Iran violently suppresses peaceful protests.
In a post on its Persian-language account, USABehFarsi, the department said, Taeb had spoken about non-interference before an international audience while praising bloodshed carried out by the Iranian government.
“Defending vulnerable people while peaceful protests at home are violently suppressed requires astonishing audacity,” the post said.
It said Iranian security forces had shot thousands of young protesters over the past decade, adding that the government’s response had been “silence, arrests and denial.”
It also said film festivals and selected poetry could not “whitewash this simple truth: a government that kills its own citizens to stay in power has no standing to lecture others.”
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