TEHRAN - The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday advised Joe Biden to care about the United States’ human rights record and lift inhumane sanctions on Iran if he is truly concerned about human rights, accusing Washington of “hypocrisy”.

The ministry was responding to a statement released by the White House late on Monday in which Biden accused Iran of a violent crackdown against protests following the death of a young Iranian girl in hospital on September 16 three days after fainting at a police station in Tehran.

“It would have been better if Mr. Joe Biden, before taking up humanitarian postures, had thought about the human rights record of his own country, though hypocrisy needs no thinking,” ministry’s spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a post on his Instagram page.

Biden should instead be worried about the numerous sanctions his country has slapped on the Iranian nation “as their implementation against any nation is a clear example of crimes against humanity,” Kanaani added.

He said people around the world “have been and are witnessing the true and unmasked face of American human rights” in many countries, including Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria and even on U.S. soil.

According to Press TV, Biden had pledged to place “further costs” on Iran, while at the same time claiming that Washington would continue supporting the rights of Iranians to “protest freely.”

Protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, first erupted in her native province of Kurdistan and later spread to other parts of the country, including Tehran.

The protests soon turned violent as rioters attacked security officers and police stations, removed women’s hijab by force, committed acts of sabotage, destroyed public property, etc.

In high-profile remarks on Monday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while saying that “the death of the young girl also broke our heart,” said the U.S. and Israel were the architects behind the violent protests in Iran.

 “I clearly say that these riots and insecurities were engineered by the U.S., the usurping and fake Zionist regime, their paid agents, and certain treasonous Iranians abroad supported them,” the Leader said in a cadet graduation ceremony.