There has been no change in Iran's
brutal repression of protests spawned by the death in hijab
patrol custody of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini
in Mid September despite President Sergio Mattarella's call to
end the violence, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday.
"We asked Tehran for a real change but the signal we requested
has not come," said the foreign minister a day after Mattarella
voiced his personal indignation to Iran's new ambassador to
Rome.
Tajani told a joint session of the parliamentary foreign affairs
committees that he had himself protested to the then
ambassador-designate at the end of December.
"What is happening in Iran is unacceptable," Tajani reiterated,
rebuffing a call by the ambassador earlier Thursday for Italy
not to interfere with Iran's "culture".
The Italian diplomatic chief said that Italy "continues to
request the immediate cessation of the repression and an
immediate moratorium on the death penalty," under which dozens
of protesters have been executed.
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