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| Iran bars UN human rights reporter |
| 2011-06-20 |
| [Iran Press TV] The Human Rights Committee of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) has decided to bar a special United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... (UN) human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... news hound from entering the country. "The United States, Israel and the UK are the biggest violators of human rights in the world and the United Nations Human Rights Committee should send their news hounds to those countries instead of Iran," member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Karim Abedi, told IRNA on Sunday. The senior Iranian politician said the UN acts selectively when it comes to human rights and citied the lack of concrete action in the face of confirmed Israeli war crimes committed during the 33-day war in Leb as proof of UN hypocrisy. Last month, Abedi announced plans by the Islamic Theocratic Republicto launch an English-language news agency to report on human rights conditions in the West. Called the Human Rights News Agency, Abedi said the new agency would report on instances of rights violation in Europe and the US. He said such abuses had gone unnoticed over the years by the world media. Earlier this month, Iran's foreign ministry underlined the need for the international monitoring of human rights violations in Western countries and added that the Iranian Foreign Ministry would actively pursue the issue. Iran says the West for using human rights as a political tool for piling up pressure on the Islamic Theocratic Republic. |
| Posted by:Fred |