IRAN TO SPEND $20 MILLION TO EXPOSE ALLEGED US AND BRITISH HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
PanARMENIAN.Net
29.11.2009 18:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iran’s parliament approved a 20-million-dollar
budget on Sunday to expose alleged US and British human rights abuses.
The sum will be spent on "alerting the international community to
numerous human rights abuses by these two countries and supporting
progressive movements standing against illegal acts of the US and
British governments."
It would also target US and British "conspiracies" against the Islamic
regime, the parliament said, adding that the intelligence ministry
would be in charge of the initiative.
The move, mirroring past US-funded initiatives, comes amid
international criticism of Iran over its crackdown on post-election
protests in which dozens were killed in clashes with security forces
and thousands of people detained.
At least four prisoners reportedly died in custody and the opposition
said some detainees were raped.
Iran blames the unrest, sparked by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
disputed re-election in June, on the United States and Britain,
charging that they sought a "soft overthrow" of the regime through
street protests.
The opposition charged the poll was massively rigged and hundreds
of thousands of people poured into streets, plunging the 30-year-old
Islamic republic into its worst political crisis, AFP reported.