Iranian lawmaker slams French interference in Iran’s internal affairs

An Iranian lawmaker has condemned the recent remarks by French Foreign Ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot as blatant interference in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic.

Mansour Haqiqatpour, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran’s Majlis, said on Monday, “Every country has its own law that is respected in that country; therefore French officials do not have the right to intervene and be disrespectful.”

Haqiqatpour also referred to the issue of human rights violations against Muslims in France and said if French authorities claimed to be supporters of freedom, they should allow Muslims to disseminate their beliefs.

At several major French cities, airport security officials force Muslim women to remove their hijab in public in the name of “safety.”

Referring to the restrictions in the West, Haqiqatpour added, “Today, Western countries have confined and imprisoned their scientists because of their research on Holocaust.”

“The time has passed when they [Western countries] could present themselves as the cradle of freedom and use it as an excuse to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries.”