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IRAN has accused the West of using the case of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery to undermine the Islamic Republic.

Responding to a new wave of demands by Western governments that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani be spared, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran accused Europe and the US of portraying a criminal as a human rights victim to embarrass Iran.

"They have become so shameless that they have turned the case of Ms Ashtiani, who has committed crime and treason, into a human rights case against our nation," Ramin Mehmanparast, the ministry spokesman, said.