Iran ‘strongly’ criticizes approval of anti-Iran resolution at UNHRC
Iran strongly slammed the approval of an anti-Iran resolution at the UN human rights council, calling it a discriminatory move that undermines the credibility of the council.
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) 58th regular session, Iran’s ambassador to the UN headquarters in Geneva Ali Bahraini said the move “bogs down the council into a new quagmire of inefficiency and waste of resources” and diminishes trust in the work of the agency.
The council passed the resolution against Iran that extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and decided that the Fact-Finding Mission should continue with a mandate to “monitor and investigate allegations of recent and ongoing serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic.”
Bahraini urged the council to focus on the catastrophic situation of human rights in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
“In a situation where the most severe rights violations are being committed in Palestine and their perpetrators enjoy the highest level of immunity and impunity, the sponsors of draft resolution A/HRC/58/L.20/Rev.1 are trying to mislead the council by portraying a false picture of the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the envoy said.
He warned that the Western sponsors of the resolution, including the UK and Germany, should be held accountable for all their oppression against the Iranian people and humankind.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Esmail Baqaei also expressed regret over the continued exploitation of human rights mechanisms by the UK, Germany, and certain other Western countries to exert political pressure on developing nations.
He condemned the two countries’ leading role in pushing an anti-Iranian resolution at the UN Human Rights Council, saying that they lack the moral standing to lecture others on human rights.
Baqaei emphasized that the resolution’s content is factually incorrect, relying on unsubstantiated claims attributed to unnamed individuals, rendering it legally baseless and invalid.
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson also pointed to the hypocritical approach of the UK, Germany, Canada, and other sponsors of this anti-Iran resolution over the past two years regarding the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza and the crimes of the regime against the people of Lebanon and Syria.
He pointed out that the UK is one of the biggest political, financial, and military backers of the Israeli regime.
Baqaei also said Germany is the second-largest arms supplier to Israel, with its foreign minister openly justifying the killing of innocent Palestinian women and children. These two countries have no moral authority to preach human rights to others.