Iran the world leader in abuse of human rights

IT is difficult to see why the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Rahimpour, should see fit to involve himself in a controversy concerning a report on the Shannon stopover of the Israeli prime minister (Letters, November 25).

Mr Rahimpour represents a country whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly called for Israel — a state 80 times smaller than his own with one-twelfth of its population — to be “wiped off the map”.

His country supplies Hezbollah and Hamas with the rockets they use to attack Israeli civilians.