Iran to Americans: World Has Heard Your Outcry

Date: 01 June 2020 - 21:59

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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran’s Foreign Ministry Monday called on Washington to "stop violence” against its own people after protests across the U.S. over the death of a black American man.
"To the American people: the world has heard your outcry over the state of oppression. The world is standing with you,” ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said at a news conference.
"And to the American officials and police: stop violence against your people and let them breathe,” he told reporters in English.
"We deeply regret to see the American people, who peacefully seek respect and no more violence, being suppressed indiscriminately and met with utmost violence,” he said.
"The American regime is perusing violence and bullying at home and abroad.”
On Sunday, Mousavi said the United States has developed an overly strong habit of lecturing other countries despite its own well-documented abuse record.
"You’re so used to lecturing others,” he tweeted, responding to a member of the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based international affairs think tank.
Barbara Slavin had taken on Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif for critiquing those within the United States and elsewhere, who "don’t think black lives matter.”
"Fix your own country first. We’ll fix ours,” Slavin told the Iranian top diplomat.
Mousavi told Slavin that is exactly what Zarif is asking U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to do.
Washington’s deep-seated habit of just telling others what to do and not tolerating criticism has made it feel "awkward to be reminded that YOU ‘should not be so arrogant as to tell Iran,’” he said.