[PRESSTV] Iran has rejected a recent report by a UN rights rapporteur, saying it has failed to take into account US sanctions on Tehran and thousands of victims of terrorist attacks in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
On Wednesday, Asma Jahangir, the UN special rapporteur on the Iran human rights
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situation, submitted a report to the world body, condemning alleged harassment of journalists and torture.
Jahangir said she had not assessed the impact of sanctions on human rights in Iran as she was not allowed to visit the country.
Hassan Nejad, Iran’s envoy to the UN Human Rights Council, said on Thursday that Jahangir’s report had portrayed "a flawed and distorted image" of Iran.
The report, he said, had turned a blind eye to illegal and unilateral US sanctions against the Iranians and 17,000 victims of terrorism in the country.
"The only determining power for support of human rights in Iran is the Iranians themselves and there is no room for outsiders," Nejad said.