Iran condemns 'biased, politically-motivated' UN rights resolution

The Iranian Foreign Ministry unequivocally denounces a resolution passed at the United Nations General Assembly, which has found fault with the human rights situation in Iran.

According to Press TV, Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Thursday called the Canada-proposed resolution, which had been adopted at the Assembly a day earlier, a document devised based on a “selective, ill-intentioned, confrontational, and politically-charged attitude.”

He said the resolution represented an attempt at taking political mileage out of and instrumentalization of human rights and application of double-standards to the issue, adding that such an approach stands in the way of sustainable betterment of the human rights situation in the world.

Mousavi noted those supporting the resolution were themselves adopting double standards concerning human rights, and tried to have international institutions such as the United Nations do the same, adding, “We express regret that the UN’s mechanisms have come to be abused in such a way.”

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