Iran slams UN recent resolution on human rights

In response to the adoption of Iran’s human rights resolution by the third Committee of the General Assembly in its sixty-ninth session, Marzieh Afkham asserted, “unfortunately, the Canada-drafted UN resolution on alleged human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic has been adopted with a political motivation and no regard for facts. It is completely unfounded, based on unreliable sources and databases associated with notorious terrorist groups. ”

She compared the votes for the recent resolution with the ones in last year and said, “this year, more countries opposed the politically-motivated and biased Canada-drafted resolution and this shows that they have considered the factual state of Iran’s human rights progress over the past year.”

Afkham criticized the West’s instrumental and political misuse of human rights against independent countries and maintained that this is the reason the Islamic Republic so strongly rejects the formation, adoption, and content of such resolutions.

“Iran believes that the endeavors of some Western countries to adopt such an unfounded resolution especially in the current state of the region the main crisis of which is the Zionist atrocities, terrorism, and organized extremism, is merely persistence on a wrong and failed policy in order to exert pressure on independent countries,” the FM spokeswoman asserted.

She lamented the sponsors of the draft resolution for their lack of insight into Iran’s progress in legal, social, health, education, women, and children fields all achieved during the period of illegal sanction imposition against Iran and said, “UPR is a proper and universal mechanism to unbiasedly assess the state of human rights in countries, and the Islamic Republic has been having a constructive and active presence at its meetings.”

On Tuesday, the UN General Assembly human rights committee adopted a resolution on alleged rights violations in Iran, which was sponsored by seventy-eight countries. The resolution builds on a recent report by UN Human Rights Rapporteur on Iran Ahmed Shaheed, whose appointment has been criticized by Iran for being selective and politically-motivated.

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