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UN silence on Israeli crimes emboldens Tel Aviv regime: Iran’s top rights official
Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Naser Seraj made the remarks in a meeting with the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif on the sidelines of 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Referring to the regime’s indiscriminate attacks on residential areas, hospitals and media centers as well as mass killings, the Iranian official emphasized the necessity for the UN to stop the crimes of the Israeli regime and confront its repeated aggressions.
Seraj underlined that the silence of the UN in the face of the Israeli crimes or the use of vague statements when referring to its crimes have emboldened the regime to breach human rights.
Iran and Qatar would not have been subjected to aggression by Israel if the United Nations had acted against the regime’s crimes, he said.
Addressing the 60th regular session of the Human Rights Council, the Iranian official called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to compel Israel and the United States to compensate the Islamic Republic for losses incurred during the illegal aggression of June against the country.
“We expect the Human Rights Council to take effective measures to stop and prevent the Zionist regime’s crimes and to use all its resources to make the aggressors (the Zionist regime and the United States) compensate for the material and moral damage inflicted on the Iranian people’s rights.”
Seraj also expressed his gratitude to the UN special rapporteurs who explicitly condemned the Israeli-US aggression and defended the rights of the Iranian nation.
The official called on the UN rapporteurs to hold the criminal regimes in Tel Aviv and Washington accountable for their gross violation of the fundamental rights of the Iranian people.
On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked aggression against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that killed at least 1,064 people in the country, including military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.
The United States also entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of international law.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the US, managed to impose a halt to the aggression.
Seraj said Iranians expected urgent and immediate action from international institutions responsible for maintaining international peace and security, particularly the UN Security Council, in the face of the Israeli-US aggression, but they only witnessed silence, inaction, and politicization.
The Israeli regime also launched an attack on Qatar’s capital on September 9, killing six people including five members of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
The regime targeted a meeting of Hamas leaders who had gathered in Doha to discuss a US cease-fire proposal in the Gaza Strip.