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TEHRAN, (APP/AFP): Iran on Tuesday condemned a
rally in France by an exiled opposition group it labelled a “stinking corpse” and said it would denounce any country that backed it.
The National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI) claimed that
100,000 Iranians had attended its annual rally at Le Bourget, near Paris, on Saturday.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will continue to confront this
hypocritical little group and will condemn any government” that supports it, government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht told the official IRNA news agency.
He described the NCRI as an “annihilated terrorist group” and a
“stinking corpse”.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called the rally a “political
game” where attendees “take part every year and support terrorists”.
Iranian media reported that Prince Turki al-Faisal, former
intelligence chief of Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia, attended the event.