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Iran raps UN resolution as political, devoid of genuine concern for rights
Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva rejected a resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council against Iran as political and unacceptable move which is devoid of genuine concern for human rights.
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution that extended the mandate of the so-called Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Iran for two years, and the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for one year.
The resolution also called for an urgent investigation by the Fact-Finding Mission, in the context of what it called the crackdown of the recent foreign-backed unrest in Iran.
The resolution, proposed by Iceland, Germany, North Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova, and the United Kingdom, was adopted by a vote of 25 in favor, seven against, and 14 abstentions.
Pakistan, China, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Iraq, and Vietnam voted against it.
Late last month, widespread economic hardships compounded by years of Western sanctions sparked peaceful protests by merchants across Tehran and other cities.
Iranian authorities initially acknowledged the legitimacy of some demands, but officials said demonstrations were hijacked by US- and Israeli-backed rioters aiming to incite violence and disorder.
Iranian authorities said on Wednesday that 3,117 people died during the unrest, including 2,427 civilians and security personnel, noting that many innocents were killed by organized terrorist elements.
Iran’s mission said Tehran views the United Nations Human Rights Council's special session and its outcome as an overtly political act and entirely devoid of genuine concern for human rights and rejects it.
The mission added that the initiators of the move have never been sincerely concerned about the rights of the Iranian people, otherwise they would not have imposed inhumane sanctions that seriously violate fundamental rights and they would not have ignored the Israel’s aggression against the Islamic Republic that killed and injured more than 5,000 Iranians.
The statement said that Iran has strong, independent, and effective national accountability mechanisms and therefore rejects any pretext for politicized external intervention.
President Masoud Pezeshkian has also ordered a comprehensive investigation into the root causes of recent incidents in Iran, the statement added.
“The cases of detainees will be handled with justice, fairness and compassion. The rights of Iranian citizens are guaranteed only through independent legal processes based on national sovereignty.”
Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations office in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, also slammed the Friday's meeting as "posturing" and "a pressure tool against Iran.”
A number of countries also came to Iran's defense, accusing the council of being "politicized" and showing "double standards."
Cuban ambassador Rodolfo Benitez slammed the session as an "act of supreme cynicism," while China's Ambassador Jia Guide said Beijing "opposed interference in other countries' internal affairs on the pretext of human rights.”