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IRAN - Iran Dismisses UN Human Rights Assessment As 'Biased Report'
March 18, 2022: Iran Dismisses UN Human Rights Assessment As 'Biased Report'
Iran's foreign ministry on Friday accused the UN Human Rights rapporteur of 'politicizing' the situation of human rights in Iran and issuing biased reports.
In a statement, ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the latest report of UN special rapporteur Javaid Rehman on the situation of human rights in Iran to the UN Human Rights Council was "full of one-sided and incorrect information and conclusions" and contained allegations based on misinformation received from "hostile sources".
Rehman, a professor at Brunel University, has not visited Iran since he was appointed in 2018, because Iran has banned UN and other human rights investigators from visiting the country.
“We condemn the application of double standards by Western countries and the instrumental use of the concept of human rights as well as the silence and inaction of countries that claim to be advocates of these rights” in the face of human rights violations by certain countries, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday.
After Saudi Arabia’s execution of 81 prisoners in the largest mass execution by the kingdom in modern history over “terror-related offenses", Kazem Gharibabadi, the secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, also criticized Western countries for using human rights to put pressure on non-aligned countries but not their allies such as Saudi Arabia.
Iran Dismisses UN Human Rights Assessment As 'Biased Report' (iranintl.com) (Source: iranintl.com)
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