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Iran Foreign Minister Says ‘Human Rights Need To Be Respected’

Hank Berrien

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, a representative of the government that is widely regarded as the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world, boasted that he was “a human rights professor” and that “human rights need to be respected.”

Zarif told interviewer Lyse Doucet:

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