{"id":6947,"date":"2023-03-06T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=6947"},"modified":"2023-03-06T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:56:42","slug":"iran-derides-us-support-for-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=6947","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Iran Derides US\u2019 Support for Human Rights<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Recounting the dark record of the US government in backing apartheid regimes, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Washington has no right to support human rights or democracy.<br>\u201cThere was a time the US was backing the apartheid regime in South Africa, the CIA helped it arrest (Nelson) Mandela,\u201d Nasser Kanaani said in a post on his Twitter account on Sunday.<br>\u201cToday, it is the strategic ally &amp; supporter of the apartheid Zionist regime. The US does not deserve to defend human rights &amp; democracy. It does not believe in them at all,\u201d the Iranian spokesman added.<br>In a meeting with hundreds of prominent Iranian women in Tehran on January 4, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic\u2019s stance toward the hypocritical human rights advocates in the West is that of demand and being on the offensive rather than defense, because \u201cthe modernized West and its decadent culture are truly guilty in this regard and have committed a crime against women\u2019s honor and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/en\/news\/2023\/03\/0 5\/2862818\/iran-derides-us-support-for-human-rights\">Tasnimnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Recounting the dark record of the US government in backing apartheid regimes, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Washington has no right to support human rights or democracy.\u201cThere was a time the US was backing the apartheid regime in South Africa, the CIA helped it arrest (Nelson) Mandela,\u201d Nasser Kanaani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[2780,2778,1615,2779],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-apartheid-regime","tag-human-rights","tag-iran","tag-mocking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6949,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/6949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}