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Khatami Condemns Double Standards on Human Rights
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday accused world powers of exercising double standards concerning human rights and discrimination in the international community.
Iran has been fighting for freedom in the past 150 years and it has established democracy based on its own religious and cultural values, Khatami said during a meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.
The Iranian people now enjoy the right to decide their own fate, he was quoted as saying by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency.
Any attempt to impose a special kind of democracy on Iran is detrimental, he stressed.
The Iranian president also condemned different forms of discrimination in the international community, saying that dialogs among civilizations are the sole way to bring about justice- oriented world order.
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