Iran s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri has defended his government following the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September this year, which triggered large-scale protests in the country.
Ali Bagheri accused the western countries of conspiring against Iran and asked why western powers are not talking about atrocities against the people of Afghanistan, Palestine and Yemen.
Iran is facing one of its biggest and most unprecedented shows of dissent following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman detained by the morality police allegedly for not wearing her hijab properly.
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