Iran summons Italian ambassador in response to Rome’s summons of Iranian diplomat

Dec. 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Italian ambassador to the country, Giuseppe Perrone, on Thursday to protest the “interference” of the Italian authorities in Iranian politics.

The ministerial portfolio has transferred to Perrone that “Iran considers it lacking legitimacy and unacceptable to exercise double standards with regard to Human Rights.”

“It is the Western countries that are violating Iranian rights, the Human Rights of the nation, and it is the Iranian people who are harmed by their sanctions,” the ministry said, according to the Mehr news agency.

Likewise, Foreign Affairs has remarked that “the negative and meaningless positions of some Italian officials have nothing to do with the history of relations between the two countries.”

This meeting took place after the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, met this Wednesday with the designated Iranian ambassador in Rome, Mohammad Reza Saburi, to demand that Tehran put an end to capital punishment and start a dialogue with the protesters.

“Italy is committed to defending Human Rights and democracy, against the death penalty,” Tajani told the media as he left the Farnesina palace, where he met Saburi, according to the news agency. dnaKronos.

Tajani conveyed to the Iranian diplomatic representative the “concern and indignation and firm condemnation of Italy” at the repression of dissent by the authorities in the context of the protests over the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested for carrying wrong put the veil