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Iran slams U.S. "meddlesome" approach towards internal affairs

Xinhua, February 16, 2017 Adjust font size:

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned as "meddlesome" a recent U.S. State Department statement on the 2009 post-election unrest in Iran, Press TV reported.

Iranians have "very bitter memories" of the U.S. officials' occasional interference in Iran's domestic affairs, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying.

Qasemi condemned the U.S. statement as "biased, suspicious, unwarranted and politically-motivated," stressing that Iran will never accept such meddlesome approaches by the United States.

In a statement on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department asked Iran to put an end to the house arrest of Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, two of the candidates in the 2009 presidential election who lost the race according to the official results but claimed that the results had been rigged. The two remain under house arrest on charges of provoking the public and harming the national security since 2011. Endit