News - Middle East: Iran says the United States and Europe lack the legal, judicial and moral competence to comment on human rights-related issues in other countries.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani on Saturday slammed new meddlesome statements of some American and European officials about human rights in Iran.

"Instead of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and trying to portray a humanitarian face, Western politicians had better heed the grievances of their own citizens and spend time on their own human rights and citizenship demands," Kan'ani said.

He said the United States and Europe are using human rights as a means to promote their own “illegitimate political objectives.”