Deputy spokesman of the US State Department Vedant Patel told reporters on Monday that all blasphemy laws remain “an affront” to human rights worldwide, including in Iran.
The remarks came hours after the Iranian judiciary said two men convicted of actively propagating against Islam, insulting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), and burning the Holy Quran had been executed.
The judiciary identified those put to death as Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, adding that the two convicts openly confessed to propagating infidelity and sacrilege of the Islamic sanctities.
A day earlier, Iran had condemned the meddlesome positions of certain Western states over the execution of the mastermind of the 2018 Ahvaz terrorist attack, saying that such an approach will only promote the sinister phenomenon of terrorism all over the world.
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