Iran Blasts UN Human Rights Rapporteur for Propaganda

Tehran rapped new UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights Javaid Rehman for his propaganda against Iran, and stressed once again that designation of a special rapporteur for the country is not justified legally and rationally.

News ID: 443702

Date: 03 March 2019 - 23:27

RNA - Iran's Human Rights Headquarters in a statement on Saturday lashed out at Javaid for his hostility, propaganda and lies against Iran in interviews with different media, including the BBC, stressing that he should only report to the UN and is not allowed to involve in media and propaganda issues.

It added that Javaid Rahman's behavior indicates again that designation of a special rapporteur for Iran "is not justified legally and rationally and only shows the double-standards and political deception of the Human Rights Council".

The statement warned that if the high commissioner for human rights fails to stop Javaid's attitude "the extensive cooperation of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Human Rights Council on this rapporteur will no doubt be reviewed".

Iran has always criticized the Human Rights Council for its double-standard behavior.

The country says that the United State and other western states' record of human rights violations disqualifies them of being a human rights advocate elsewhere in the world.

In late 2012, the Iranian foreign ministry rapped Washington for its dark human rights record, and urged the UN officials to suspend the United States' membership in the world body's Human Rights Council.

"It is obvious that the US administration with its negative record of human rights and its actions in violation of the criteria and standards of the UN human rights conventions and treaties is not qualified to be a member of the Human Rights Council which is the most important international human rights mechanism," former Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said as the US had applied for membership in the UN Human Rights Council.

He also announced that Iran along with the developing countries which had played a pivotal role in the formation of the UN Human Rights Council wanted to oppose the US membership in the Council in the elections held during the UN General Assembly meeting.

The US has been staunchly criticizing human rights conditions in other countries, while it itself has been widely blamed for trampling upon minority rights.

In November, 2010, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to sign the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.

It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for human rights in the world, has despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite former President Barack Obama's promise, still not shut down the Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib horrendous prisons.

It is stressed in the report that the United States has not yet joined the most important convention related to the economic, social and cultural rights that is among the most important human rights documents.

According to Fars News Agancy, the Children's Rights Committee of the United Nations, too, has announced that the United States has been one of the greatest producers and distributors of the world child pornography products, while it is now one of the only two countries in the world that have not yet joined the International Children's Rights Convention.

On January 27, 2014, Iran’s Basij (Volunteer) Force released a comprehensive report on the violation of human rights by the US inside the country and abroad.

The report was unveiled in a ceremony participated by former Commander of Iran's Basij Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Parliament's First Vice-Speaker Hassan Aboutorabi Fard, Iranian judiciary chief and a number of Judiciary officials and experts.

The report referred to different cases of violation of human rights by the US, including the executions, arbitrary detentions, torture of inmates, violation of people’s privacy, violation of the rights of the minorities, Muslims and native Americans, racism and former US President Barack Obama’s opposition to the freedom of expression.

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