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Envoy rejects UN body’s ‘false picture’ of rights situation in Iran

Friday, 04 April 2025 11:10 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 04 April 2025 11:28 AM ]

Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations office in Geneva Ali Bahraini

Iran’s ambassador to the UN headquarters in Geneva has strongly criticized the adoption of a resolution against Tehran at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), saying the discriminatory act undermines the credibility of the 47-member body.

Ali Bahraini made the remarks to the council's 58th regular session, which saw the anti-Iran document passed with 24 votes in favor, eight against, and 15 abstentions.

He said the resolution diminishes trust in the work of the UNHRC, exposes its inefficiency and wastes its resources.

He also 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.

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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.

The resolution 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 said there is no proportionality between the provisions of the resolution and Iran's human rights situation.

He also called on the UNHRC member states to oppose the "deceptive" move by some countries aimed at politically abusing the UN rights body.

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