Iran summons French envoy to protest statement on execution of counterrevolutionary propagandist

Iran has summoned French Ambassador to Tehran Philippe Thiebaud to protest a statement issued by the European country's Foreign Ministry condemning the execution of Rouhollah Zam, administrator of a notorious counterrevolutionary website, who was convicted of corruption on earth, among other crimes.

According to Press TV, Iranian s Foreign Ministry's Director General for European Affairs summoned the French diplomat Sunday afternoon to voice the Islamic Republic’s “official protest” over the French Foreign Ministry's statement.

The French ambassador said he would relay the Islamic Republic's message to his country's officials.

Zam, who used to run the counterrevolutionary Amad News website, was hanged on Saturday after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence issued by the Islamic Revolution Court back in June.

Earlier on Sunday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry also summoned Germany’s ambassador to Tehran after the European Union expressed strong sympathy for Zam's execution.

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