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Iran will strongly resist West vote interference: official
Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:46am EDT
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By Parisa Hafezi and Reza Derakhsi
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran accused the West on Monday of "meddling" in its state affairs for criticizing its mass trial of moderates charged with spying and trying to topple the clerical establishment after the disputed president vote.
"Do we interfere in other countries' state matters? Why should they interfere in ours? Iran will strongly resist such meddling," senior official Hassan Qashqavi told a weekly news conference.
"Why don't they (the West) leave us and our people alone?"
The June 12 election, which secured hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, plunged Iran into its biggest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exposed deepening divisions in its ruling elite and set off a wave of protests that left 26 people dead.
In an attempt to uproot the opposition, Iran began two mass trials of over 100 people, including prominent figures, a French woman and two Iranians working for the British and French embassies in Tehran. It charged them with spying and assisting a Western plot to overthrow the clerical rule.
The United States and its European allies have rejected the trials as a "show." Britain and France have denied that those detained were spies. The Swedish EU presidency said actions against one EU country or citizen were considered an act against the entire 27-nation bloc.
Espionage and acting against national security are punishable by death under Iran's Islamic law.
Moderates say the vote was rigged in favor of Ahmadinejad, backed by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Officials say it was the "healthiest" vote in the past 30 years.
Leading moderates, including defeated candidates Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, have denounced the mass trials as an "invaluable show," saying confessions were made under duress.
"UNLAWFUL COMMENTS"
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qashqavi said comments made by Frenchwoman Clotilde Reiss and two Iranians working for French and British embassies in Tehran proved foreign intervention in Iran's internal affairs.
"Their comments in the court were unlawful, illogical and surprising," Qashqavi said.
"This French lady says she was a French language teacher in Isfahan ... then she takes part in protests, takes photographs and film. This has nothing to do with her French teaching."
Qashqavi said the British employee Hossein Rassam's confessions "were not made under pressure." Rassam is charged with espionage and was freed on $100,000 bail on July 19.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday urged judiciary to put on trial Mousavi, Karoubi and former president Mohammad Khatami for orchestrating protests after the June poll. Continued...
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