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| Iran blasts UN over HR investigator |
| 2011-03-26 |
| [Iran Press TV] Iranian politicians have strongly deplored a resolution by the United Nations ... aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... to assign a human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights,mind you... investigator to look into allegations of rights abuse in Iran. "This resolution lacks legal significance and is completely rejected," said the head of the Parliament (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi in an interview with Mehr News Agency ...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?... on Friday. Citing the recent Another Iranian politician blasted the recent resolution regarding the human rights probe as a tool to divert public attention from the atrocities being committed in the Middle East. "The efforts of the West, especially the United States, is aimed at taking a preemptive measure and link the massacre of the people of the region to Iran," Kazem Jalali said in a separate interview with Mehr News Agency. Iranian politician Javad Jahangirzadeh said the United Nations merely serves as a tool for the West to place pressure on the Islamic Theocratic Republicunder the pretext of nuclear non-proliferation or human rights. The UN rights council on Thursday narrowly approved a US and Swedish-backed proposal for a special rapporteur to investigate allegations of human rights violations in Iran. The Islamic Theocratic Republicmaintains that allegations of human rights abuse in Iran are politically motivated and meant to divert attention from rights abuses committed by the United States. |
| Posted by:Fred |