AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Issuing a statement, Iran's High Council for Human Rights noted that the advocates of human rights not only commit violations of human rights in their territory but have also sided with such a criminal regime as Israel.
The High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran (HCHR) issued a statement in response to the approval of the politicized resolution in the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly regarding the situation of human rights in Iran.
Following the approval of the resolution proposed by Canada in the third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly regarding the situation of human rights in Iran, the Iranian High Council for Human Rights issued a statement in response to this resolution.
In this statement, referring to Iran’s system which is based on religious democracy, it is stated: "The Islamic Republic of Iran is a system based on religious democracy that emerged from the Islamic Revolution, which, relying on Islamic values and deep religious, human and moral teachings, managed to protect the people of Iran from gross violations of the fundamental rights and oppressions of the authoritarian regime of the monarchy supported by the West."
Noting that the claimants of human rights, who are the founders and supporters of the resolution against the Islamic Republic of Iran, have sided with the criminal Zionist regime, the statement adds: "Unfortunately, more than ever before, human rights have been politicized and double standards and discriminatory approaches are rampant in this field. The widespread crimes of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, which is an exhibition of crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and racial and ethnic cleansing, on the one hand, the ineffectiveness of human rights mechanisms and tools, on the other hand, show the selective and biased policies regarding the issue of human rights."
The statement added: "The human rights claimants who are the founders and supporters of the establishment of the human rights mechanism and the approval of the resolution against independent countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, not only commit extensive and gross violations of human rights in their territory but have also sided with this criminal regime."
It is also emphasized in the statement that the Islamic Republic of Iran has taken tremendous measures in the fields of political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights during the past 45 years. All indicators, including in the fields of education, health, development, people's participation, as well as the human development index, have significant growth, especially compared to the period before the Islamic Revolution. We do not forget that before the Islamic Revolution, the authoritarian regime ruling Iran was supported by the West and human rights claimants, and human rights had no place in these relations. On the other hand, the Islamic Republic of Iran also has appropriate interactions in the field of human rights in the international sphere, including interaction with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, interaction with Special Procedures mandate holders, responding to special procedures correspondence, joining a significant number of international human rights treaties and presenting periodic reports in the implementation of their commitments, taking a principled approach in supporting the UPR mechanism, and organizing bilateral human rights dialogues, are only a part of these interactions.
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