Iran on Saturday once more known as within the British ambassador, marking the fifteenth time in lower than three months a overseas envoy has been summoned, as protests shake the nation.

The overseas ministry known as in British ambassador Simon Shercliff, a day after his German counterpart, Hans-Udo Muzel, needed to seem, state information company IRNA stated.

This brings to no less than 15 occasions in about 10 weeks that Iran has summoned overseas envoys, virtually all of them from Western international locations.

“It is a response of Iranian diplomacy to unprecedented stress towards Iran,” IRNA stated.

Shercliff has now been summoned 5 occasions for the reason that begin of demonstrations sparked by the dying of Kurdish-Iranian lady Mahsa Amini, 22.

Amini died in custody on September 16 after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the nation’s strict costume code for ladies.

Iran calls the protests “riots” and says they’ve been inspired by its overseas foes.

IRNA stated the overseas ministry protested the UK’s help for “terror and unrest”, and sanctions it has imposed.

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Iran on Saturday additionally condemned Australia for imposing new sanctions towards people and establishments allegedly concerned in Tehran’s response to the protests.

Overseas ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani accused Canberra of “interfering in Iran’s inside affairs and inciting and selling violence and hatred,” in line with an announcement.

Australia earlier Saturday introduced sanctions on a number of people and two entities, together with Iran’s morality police and the Basij, a paramilitary drive linked to the highly effective Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The “new anti-Iranian motion” comes whereas the Australian authorities “has systematically violated the fundamental rights of Aboriginal Australians, prisoners and asylum seekers, and has additionally sheltered components of anti-Iranian terrorist and separatist teams”, Kanani stated.

Australia’s Overseas Minister Penny Wong had accused Tehran of “flagrant and widespread disregard for the human rights of its personal folks” in an opinion piece printed earlier Saturday.

In the meantime on Friday, Iran’s overseas ministry summoned German ambassador Muzel for the fourth time since September, IRNA stated.

The ministry expressed “its utmost objection towards Germany’s unacceptable intervention”, after Berlin’s Overseas Minister Annalena Baerbock criticised the “perfidious abstract trial” which issued a dying sentence towards protester Mohsen Shekari.

Iran hanged Shekari on Thursday, within the first identified execution related with the protests, after he was convicted of blocking a avenue and wounding a Basij paramilitary member throughout unrest in late September.

Germany has additionally summoned Iran’s ambassador, a diplomatic supply stated, whereas different Western governments have condemned Shekari’s execution, and a few together with the UK have imposed extra sanctions.

Iran has summoned the French consultant twice, and ambassadors from Australia, Norway and Denmark have additionally been known as in.

Tehran’s overseas ministry has upbraided the envoys for numerous causes together with “anti-Iranian positions in regards to the protests” and “anti-Iranian propaganda” by media based mostly within the international locations, IRNA stated.

After widespread worldwide outrage at Shekari’s execution, Iran stated it was exercising restraint, each within the response by safety forces, and the “proportionality” of the judicial course of.

Hundreds of individuals have been arrested, and in late November a Revolutionary Guards normal stated greater than 300 folks had died, together with dozens of safety forces members.