Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani has announced that Western states are the number one enemy of democracy in the Middle East, Press TV reported.
"Western countries, including the UK, are the strong supporters of dictatorship and enemies of democracy in the region," Larijani told Mehr news agency on Friday.
Criticizing the double standard diplomacy of Western states about the human rights, the Iranian official noted that Western governments have discriminatory policies and are trying to impose them on other nations.
Larijani also pointed out that Western countries legalize all acts of violence in their own countries and other states under the pretext that they are fighting terrorism, adding they are committing crimes in war-ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan.
He made the remarks after British Ambassador to Iran Simon Gass accused Tehran of human rights violations last week.
The Iranian official had earlier said that the British government wanted to hide the troubles and shortcomings in their own country by commenting on the human rights situation in other countries.
Larijani also criticized the British police tactics towards the recent peaceful demonstrations by students in London over tuition fees.
The protests, which have faced the most violent reaction from the police, were launched with a vote in the House of Commons on removing the tuition fees cap to treble to up to £9,000 in England.
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