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TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran lashed out at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for pursuing a double-standard policy on Iran, asking why the UNHRC has failed to appoint a special human rights rapporteur for the major world powers. |
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The Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Committee (HRC) condemned double-standard policy of the UNHRC, and through producing a statement said that why there is no special rapporteur for the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada and the “rogue” Zionist regime, all committing genocide and carnage, but there is a rapporteur for Iran, which has the biggest and the strongest democracy in the region.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers this UN action as unjustified from a legal standpoint, very weak and unacceptable from a technical standpoint, unfounded from a methodological standpoint, and scandalous from a moral standpoint,” the HRC said in the statement.
In mid-October, Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman and Prosecutor-General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeii said that report by UN Special Rapporteur on Iran’s Human Rights Ahmed Shaheed is not acceptable to Tehran due to its biased sources of information, reiterating the country’s high respect for human rights.
“We do not at all accept this report because they (authors of the report) refer to biased people and those who are hostile to us in a bid to obtain information,” Ejeii added.
In his latest report on Iran’s human rights conditions, Shaheed accused the Islamic Republic of Iran of widespread human rights violations.
In response, Iranian officials said that Ahmed Shaheed has only parroted the unfounded allegations raised by anti-revolution elements against Iran since he had been tasked with accusing Iran.
“Since the very first day that Mr. Ahmad Shaheed was introduced as the United Nations rapporteur (on Iran) we guessed that he was a an American agent, but his later reports assured us that he has been assigned to this mission by the US,” Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told FNA.
“Ahmed Shaheed contacts anti-revolution elements instead of Iranian authorities to receive information and to prepare his reports, and acts in harmony with the Americans when compiling reports (on Iran),” he added.
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