Iran hits back after West condemns its human rights record


  • World
  • Friday, 31 Oct 2014

GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran defended its human rights record on Friday, after a wave of Western criticism of its execution of a woman for murdering a man she said had tried to rape her.

Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, was speaking at a more than three hour-long debate in the U.N. Human Rights Council to review Tehran's record.

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