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    IRAN TO SPEND $20 MILLION TO EXPOSE ALLEGED US AND BRITISH HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    29.11.2009 18:10 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iran's parliament approved a 20-million-dollar
    budget on Sunday to expose alleged US and British human rights abuses.

    The sum will be spent on "alerting the international community to
    numerous human rights abuses by these two countries and supporting
    progressive movements standing against illegal acts of the US and
    British governments."

    It would also target US and British "conspiracies" against the Islamic
    regime, the parliament said, adding that the intelligence ministry
    would be in charge of the initiative.

    The move, mirroring past US-funded initiatives, comes amid
    international criticism of Iran over its crackdown on post-election
    protests in which dozens were killed in clashes with security forces
    and thousands of people detained.

    At least four prisoners reportedly died in custody and the opposition
    said some detainees were raped.

    Iran blames the unrest, sparked by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's
    disputed re-election in June, on the United States and Britain,
    charging that they sought a "soft overthrow" of the regime through
    street protests.

    The opposition charged the poll was massively rigged and hundreds
    of thousands of people poured into streets, plunging the 30-year-old
    Islamic republic into its worst political crisis, AFP reported.
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