Iran Vows ‘Appropriate’ Response to EU Meddling

Date: 07 October 2022 - 22:18

News ID: ۱۰۷۵۳۶

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned a resolution adopted by the European Parliament against Tehran as “meddlesome” and “baseless”, vowing to give an “appropriate” response to the imposition of any restrictive measures against Iranian people.
“The resolution entails baseless and biased presumptions against the Islamic Republic of Iran and hence is void and lacks any value,” ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement.
The remarks came after MEPs on Thursday adopted a resolution with regard to recent riots in Iran, calling on the EU officials to impose sanctions against Iranian officials.
The resolution “unjustly and under fictitious titles” criticizes confronting organized violent actions and attacks against public properties and lives of people, Kanaani said, reminding the European officials that “many designers and inducers of riots are carrying out their hostile actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran mainly from Europe.”
“The resolution showed that the European Parliament is continuing its selective behavior towards the great Iranian nation as the Parliament, despite its claims, has never issued any human rights resolution to condemn inhumane sanctions against Iranian people,” he added.
He noted that an investigation into the death of Mahsa Amini is underway according to internal laws and upon order of senior officials of the country and “not for pleasing others.”
Kanaani said the case is “just an excuse” for hardline members of the EU parliament to continue their “animosity” toward Iran.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready for bilateral interaction with all parties based on mutual respect and interests, however, it will firmly stand against any effort to impose pressure or resort to restrictive measures against Iranian people and will give an appropriate reciprocal response to it.”
On Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian warned the European countries of any “hasty” action against the Islamic Republic.
Iran has blasted the role of foreign countries in orchestrating the deadly riots.
On Sunday, Iran’s intelligence ministry said it arrested nine foreign nationals from Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden, among others for involvement in the deadly riots, along with 256 members of foreign-based anti-Iran terrorist groups.
Medial Report: Amini Died of Illness
Iran said Friday an investigation into the

death in custody of Mahsa Amini found she lost her life to illness rather than reported beatings that sparked three weeks of violent foreign-backed riots.
Amini, 22, died on September 16, three days after falling into a coma at a police station in Tehran. The incident prompted initially peaceful protests, but they soon degenerated into violent riots during which public property, mosques and copies of the Holy Qur’an were torched and medical and security personnel attacked.
Iran’s Forensic Organization said Friday that “Mahsa Amini’s death was not caused by blows to the head and vital organs and limbs of the body”.
The death of Amini was related to “surgery for a brain tumor at the age of eight,” it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Iran’s judiciary denied reports that security forces killed a teenage girl at a protest last month, saying instead that she committed suicide.
Mizan Online, the judiciary’s website, said late Thursday that “hostile media” reported Sarina Esmailzadeh “had been killed by security forces at a rally” in Karaj, the regional capital of Alborz province.
Alborz province prosecutor Hussein Fazeli Harikandi said that an “initial investigation” shows she had “committed suicide,” Mizan reported.
Esmailzadeh “jumped 20 minutes after midnight on September 24” from “a building situated near her grandmother’s house” in the northeast of the city, Harikandi added.
“According to the medicolegal report, the cause of death was a shock caused by the impact,” the prosecutor was quoted as saying. “There had not been any riots in the part of Karaj where this incident happened.”
Mizan Online released a video of Esmailzadeh’s mother on Friday, in which she says that her daughter “had nothing to do with” the riots.