Condemning anti-Iran statement of the foreign ministers participating in the conference themed ‘Religious Freedom in the US’, he said that the move is interference in the country’s internal affairs and based on incorrect data, unrealistic and biased.
Noting that these few countries pretend to 'represent the international community', he said that the US and other violators of the most basic human rights do not deserve to make unilateral judgments about other countries and cultures, especially on the subject of human rights.
Recalling the progressive Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and recent enactment by the Expediency Council on rights of the religious minorities, Ghasemi said that the history of Iran has witnessed peaceful coexistence of different religions, as followers of all divine religions enjoy all civil rights and actively participate in Majlis and other elected institutes’ polls.
Denouncing Mike Pence’s imaginative, self-fabricated comments on religious beliefs during the conference, he said that the Iranian people have lived peacefully in the course of the history and followers of divine religions perform their rituals in various religious centers across the country.
A basic violation of human rights in the United States is separation of children from their parents at the southern border of U.S. with Mexico. The practice of separating immigrant children from their parents has been widely condemned both inside and outside of the United States.
The administration of President Donald Trump has faced fierce criticism for separating more than 2,000 children from their families in order to prosecute their parents for crossing the border from Mexico illegally. Trump backed down last week, signing an executive order to keep families together in detention during immigration proceedings.
A US federal judge bars separation of immigrants from children and orders their reunification after seventeen states seek to sue Donald Trump administration over its immigration policy.
Recently, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego ruled that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, after Seventeen states are suing to force the Donald Trump administration to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the US-Mexico border.
About 2,342 children have been separated from their families over the past eight weeks or so. Shockingly, these children are being kept in large metal cages , which very much resemble prisons.
The imprisonment of parents and children has triggered a massive wave of condemnation, from ordinary Americans, Church groups, and even former first ladies, such as Rosalynn Carter, Laura Bush (who called it “cruel” and “immoral”), Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Trump. Even the current first lady, Melania Trump, has released a statement saying she “hates to see” children separated from their families. Trump's own daughter Ivanka has also spoken against taking children away from their parents.
Many Democrats and some Republican politicians have also roundly condemned the Trump administration's policies towards illegal immigrants.
