TEHRAN, IRAN— The head of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi blasted the UN Council’s decision to appoint a special human rights investigator to Iran.
In a statement issued by the Parliament’s Committee on National Security and foreign policy, the Committee labelled the UN Human Rights Council as a “puppet” in the hands of the West and urged the Iranian government to deny access to the UN human rights investigator.
Bouroujerdi stated “the Islamic Republic should not accept the suggested rapporteur in this resolution to report on the state of human right in our country.”
“It is not the first time we see such positions against the Islamic Republic regarding human rights issues,” Boroujerdi added. “They result from Islamic Republic’s complete independence and the failure of the oppressive political system that dominates the world today.” Blasting the “oppressive and unfair” policies of the UN, Boroujerdi continued: “We should not pay any attention to such resolutions.”
The UN decision to appoint a human rights investigator for Iran came amid revelations of serious human rights abuses in the Iranian prisons. Iran has violently cracked down on political dissidents who are demanding change in the country’s cleric led form of government.
Scores of human rights activists, political dissidents, lawyers, and religious minorities have been rounded up by the Islamic Republic’s security agents and forced to endure torture in the hands of their interrogators.
The UN’s Human Rights Council regretted Iran’s poor record and lack of cooperation in curbing human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic.
The US and its partners campaign heavily for the appointment of a special rapporteur to monitor the Islamic Republic.
The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Eileen Donahoe, said America and its allies are “gravely concerned at the situation in Iran, where respect for human rights has deteriorated dramatically in recent years.”
The statement by the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy blamed the US for orchestrating the human rights resolution against Iran and went on to say “The reality is that today, the UN’s Human Rights Council is a political body and a puppet at the hands of world powers and behind-the-scenes deals, and lacks the competence for investigating the human rights affairs of countries.”