Iranian Foreign Ministry front man, Bahram Qassemi, was reacting to the US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2017, which was released on May 29.
The Iran section of the report claimed that "non-Shia Moslems and those affiliated with a religion other than Islam" residing in the Islamic Theocratic
Republicfaced "societal discrimination and harassment."
Besides Iran, the report also targets Washington’s other foes, including Russia, China and North Korea.Qassemi said, "The Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran views this report as unrealistic, baseless and biased, which has been compiled merely with the aim of serving certain political goals."
The US, he added, has "no accurate and realistic evaluation" of the situation inside other countries, stressing that this report, which presents yet another distorted picture of religious freedoms in Iran and levels untrue allegations against the Islamic Theocratic
Republic, is "undoubtedly unacceptable and rejected."
The official said history shows that the great people of Iran, from all faiths and ethnicities, have peacefully coexisted for millennia.