President Sergio Mattarella on
Wednesday received Iran's new ambassador to Italy Mohammad Reza
Sabouri for the presentation of his credentials and voiced
Italy's firm condemnation and his own personal indignation at
the brutal repression of demonstrations and the death penalties
and executions of many demonstrators in the Asian country in
protests spawned by the death in hijab police custody of
22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in mid-September,
the presidential palace said.
Mattarella asked Sabour to convey to his government the urgency
of immediately putting an end to the violence against the
population and said "the respect with which Italy looks to its
international partners and their laws finds an insurmountable
limit in the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights", the president's office said.
Italian officials including Premier Giorgia Meloni and Foreign
Minister Antonio Tajani have repeatedly condemned the brutal
repression of the protests by the Tehran regime, with teenagers
executed and a girl as young as 14 allegedly raped and killed by
police.
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