Tehran, March 29: Iran’s parliament has censured the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its double standards and disregard for the victims of government violence in Arab countries.
The criticism appeared in a Monday statement issued by the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament in response to an anti-Iranian resolution by the UNHRC.
The resolution was adopted on Thursday after the council narrowly approved a US and Swedish-backed proposal for appointing a special rapporteur to investigate allegations of human rights violations in the Islamic Republic.
“The UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution against Iran while member states such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, against all international conventions and human rights principles, are killing people who are expressing their demands with bare hands and via political slogans,” IRNA quoted the MPs’ statement as saying.
The statement described the UNHRC resolution as null and void, and emphasized that it deems the move as engineered by the United States and thus considers it of no legal value.
The parliamentary committee then called on the world body to pursue the killing of civilians in Yemen and Bahrain instead and “respect the lives of innocent people who are being killed with US backing on a daily basis.”
“The expectation from the United Nations Human Rights Council is to…condemn the US for its torture centers in Guantanamo Bay and secret prison across Europe and value and support real human rights,” the statement read.
——–Agencies