Araghchi to French FM: Lecturing world on human rights is blatant and embarrassing 
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Pars Today – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his French counterpart that countries such as France should stop lecturing the world about “human rights” and international law, calling it “blatant and embarrassing.”
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  • Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
    Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

Pars Today – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his French counterpart that countries such as France should stop lecturing the world about “human rights” and international law, calling it “blatant and embarrassing.”

According to Pars Today, citing IRNA, Abbas Araghchi wrote in a post on X on Thursday, responding to French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot: “Your backing of Israel’s genocide in Gaza—and aggression against Iran—has destroyed whatever moral high ground you imagined you had.”