"I think there is unity here that it is for the Iranian people to choose their government but it is for the Iranian government to protect their people," he told a news conference after a meeting of Group of Eight foreign minisers.
"The violence we have seen over the last 10 days and the killings and the beatings are deplorable and they show a failure to protect their own people," he said.
"There is a crisis of credibility not between Iran and the West, but between the Iranian counting of the votes and the Iranian people," he said. (Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Phil Stewart)