TEHRAN — Iran told Western nations on Tuesday to stay out of the case of a woman who faces death by stoning, warning it will not tolerate any interference in the matter still under examination.
"Independent nations do not allow other countries to interfere in their judicial affairs," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a news conference.
The official was responding to questions from reporters about the status of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two sentenced to death by stoning by an Iranian court.
"Western nations must not pressurise and hype it (the case) up... judicial cases have precise procedures, especially when it concerns murder.
"If a person committed a crime in Iran, that person is prosecuted which is normal, especially if she has killed somebody. The heavier the sentence, the more meticulous we are in carrying it out. This is being done," said Mehmanparast.
Western nations and human rights groups have come out strongly against Mohammadi-Ashtiani's stoning sentence and warned that her execution is imminent.
Iranian judiciary chief Sadeq Larijani has temporarily suspended the sentence from being carried out.
Officials in the Islamic republic maintain the woman was handed the stoning sentence for adultery and for being an accomplice in her husband's murder.
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