It also noted the “alarming high frequency” of the death penalty in Iran. It follows reports on human rights in Iran by Ahmed Shaheed, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who both expressed concern over Iran’s continued violations of worldwide human rights law.
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The victims of such treatment include political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights activists, labour leaders, students’ rights activists and others, it said.
Iran’s deputy ambassador told the committee Thursday that the resolution represents “a selective and politicized distortion of facts”.
Human rights groups have been pushing for the U.N.to hold Iran responsible for breaking its domestic and global obligations and not appeasing the Iranians in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal. Fifteen voted against it, including Syria allies Russian Federation and Iran as well as China.
Iran has dismissed as “politically-motivated” a United Nations resolution critical of the country’s human rights record, saying Tehran attaches no value to any resolution adopted based on ulterior political motives.
While formally neutral on the four-year-old insurgency in the next-door Arab state, Israel has sought to raise alarm overseas about support given to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by Israel’s arch-foe Iran and Hezbollah guerrillas from Lebanon.
Mrs. Rajavi once again underscored the need to submit the dossier of the clerical regime’s crimes -including 120,000 political executions and seven massacres carried out in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty – to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding and preventive measures as well as prosecution of the officials in charge of the crimes that are considered crimes against humanity by any standards.
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In addition to being yet another United Nations rubber-stamp for a Saudi position, it also doesn’t auger well for ongoing efforts to negotiate a settlement of the Syrian Civil War at Vienna, as the Saudi government is involved in those talks, along with Russian Federation and Iran, and seems to be going out of their way here to antagonize them on the Syria issue, despite the U.S. predicting an imminent breakthrough.
