Iran slams UN rights report as biased
Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva slammed a “biased” report by the world body on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic, saying it is based on anti-Iran media propaganda.
Ali Bahraini made the remarks on Wednesday in an address to the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council, during which UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif presented the secretary general’s latest report on Iran, according to Mehr news agency.
Covering the period from August 2022 to April 2023, the report alleged that there is “a worsening human rights landscape in Iran coupled with the chronic lack of meaningful and effective avenues for the population to voice grievances or indeed to seek remedies”.
Bahraini rejected the report as “politically motivated, biased, and unfair,” arguing that it “did not contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights”.
He also dismissed the claim about Iran’s “limited” implementation of recommendations of human rights mechanisms, saying such accusations “highlighted the biased and one-sided opinions of the report”.
“Iran was committed to promoting and protecting human rights and interacted and cooperated with the United Nations human rights mechanisms,” the envoy asserted.
He further criticized the report for turning a blind eye to the illegal sanctions imposed on the Iranian nation.
“The unilateral measures enacted on Iran impacted all areas of the Iranian people’s lives. The imposition of these measures against the Iranian nation was a crime against humanity, which was neglected by the report,” Bahraini said.