Home / International / International -- World Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Iran Urges US to Stop Interference in Its Internal Affairs
Adjust font size:

Iran on Sunday lashed out at the US leader for demanding Tehran release four Iranian-Americans detained for alleged espionage and urged the United States to stop interference in its internal affairs.

"Such a comment is an obvious example of intervention in our internal affairs," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told his weekly press briefing.

"The United States should stop these actions," he added. "They (the detainees) are Iranian nationals and the Iranian authorities are reviewing their case."

US President George W. Bush in a statement on Friday called for the "immediate and unconditional" release of the four Iranian-Americans.

The four detainees are Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Kian Tajbakhsh with George Soros' Open Society Institute, Parnaz Azima, journalist from the US-funded Radio Farda, and AliShakeri, a peace activist with the Center for Citizen Peace building at the University of California, Irvine.

"I strongly condemn their detention at the hands of Iranian authorities. They should be freed immediately and unconditionally," Bush said in the statement.

They were "being held against their will by the Iranian regime," Bush said, adding that "Their presence in Iran -- to visit their parents or to conduct humanitarian work -- poses no threat."

Bush also demanded Iran provide information on Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who reportedly went missing during a private visit to Iran in March.

(Xinhua News Agency June 4, 2007)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read

Related Stories
US, Iran End 27-year Diplomatic Freeze
US Warships Put on Show of Force
Iran: No Connection Between Iraq, Nuclear Issues
Gates: Diplomacy over Iran Working
Iran Backtracks on Releasing UK Soldier
Ahmadinejad Blames US, Israel for Int'l Problems
> Korean Nuclear Talks
> Middle East Peace Process
> Iran Nuclear Issue
> Reconstruction of Iraq
> 6th SCO Summit Meeting
Links
- China Development Gateway
- Foreign Ministry
- Network of East Asian Think-Tanks
- China-EU Association
- China-Africa Business Council
- China Foreign Affairs University
- University of International Relations
- Institute of World Economics & Politics
- Institute of Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies
- Institute of West Asian & African Studies
- Institute of Latin American Studies
- Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Institute of Japanese Studies
SiteMap | About Us | RSS | Newsletter | Feedback
SEARCH THIS SITE
Copyright © China.org.cn. All Rights Reserved     E-mail: webmaster@china.org.cn Tel: 86-10-88828000 京ICP证 040089号