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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jan. 27 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Sunday Norway’s top envoy to Tehran over Oslo’s recent “meddling stance” regarding the violations of human rights in Iran, state media reported.
Roald Nass was given an earful by an official in charge of the human rights bureau of the Iranian Foreign Ministry over Oslo’s “wrong code of conduct” towards Iran, the official news agency IRNA reported.
The Iranian official criticised Oslo for being “against the norms and human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran”. Norway was accused of disseminating “politically-motivated and fabricated news” about punishments handed down by Iranian courts.
The official also criticised Norway for its “silence and indifference” to the current “dreadful and catastrophic situation” in the Gaza Strip and the “systematic crimes of the Zionist regime [Israel"> in the occupied territories”.
The state-run news agency ISNA quoted the Norwegian envoy as saying he would report Tehran’s diplomatic protest to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry in Oslo.
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