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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Maziar Motamedi

Iran rejects UN investigation into protests

The Iranian government has sought to blame the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries for the unrest in Iran [File: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA Handout via Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Iran has said it will not cooperate with a United Nations fact-finding mission on its response to ongoing anti-government demonstrations due to what it calls the investigation’s “political” nature.

Tehran will have “no form of cooperation with this political committee which has been framed as a fact-finding committee”, foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani told reporters during a news conference on Monday.

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