Dutch foreign minister renews protest over Iran violence
Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen has lodged a renewed protest with the Iranian chargé d’affaires in The Hague over what he described as excessive violence used against demonstrators in Iran over the weekend. Verhagen reported the move on Sunday evening while responding to the way foreign diplomats have come under attack on Iranian state-run television. Like many other Western countries, the Netherlands last week protested to Iran about the circumstances of its presidential election. Verhagen, who is currently on a tour of Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories, expressed his concern both at the way the Iranian election was conducted and at the degree of violence used to suppress demonstrations. He also complained about the obstruction of foreign journalists in Iran, among them Dutch correspondents.
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