Iran condemns awarding Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammadi as biased political move

Iranian opposition human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, at the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran. on 25 June 2007 [BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry, on Friday, condemned the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, as a biased move aimed at politicising the prize, Reuters reports.

“The action of the Nobel Peace Committee is political move in line with the interventionist and anti-Iranian policies of some European governments,” Ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanaani, said.

“The Nobel Peace committee has awarded a prize to a person convicted of repeated law violations and criminal acts, and we condemn this as biased and politically motivated,” he said in a statement carried by state media.

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