I wonder if the Iranian officials said these statements with a straight face:
Iran summons the Italian Ambassador to Tehran Alberto Bradanini in protest against the violent suppression of anti-G8 protesters.
Bradanini was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday to hear Tehran’s concerns about the “violent suppression of justice-seeking protesters by the Italian police.”
A Foreign Ministry statement included Iran’s “strong condemnation” of the “suppressive actions…which are clear breaches of civil freedoms and fundamentals of democracy.”
Iran’s police and security militias violently suppressed justice-seeking protesters there. Iran routinely breaches the civil freedoms of its people, and the country is a sham demomocracy.
