Tehran (IP) – The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson reacted to the US Secretary of State's unsubstantiated claims on human rights in Iran.

Iran PressIran News: In his Twitter account, Nasser Kanaani stated on Friday: "With a despicable human rights record both at home & abroad, how does the US have the audacity to give itself higher moral ground to lecture the world?"

"@SecBlinken needs to remember that he's FM of a state whose police, just in 9 months, has fatally shot 730, many of them black," the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman noted.

In another tweet, he underlined: "The PM of the world's #1 terror regime, mimicking his failed predecessor, abused the #UNGA podium to spread hatred & threaten Iranian nation."

"It is their modus operandi to blackmail the world," the tweet reads.

"Iran's proven that it won't hesitate to give a dreadful response to any aggression," he concluded.

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