Iranian official urges Germany to end deceptive human rights policy

Decrying the German foreign minister’s “deceptive” statement before a “fraudulent” special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Iran, an Iranian Judiciary official called on Berlin to end its forgery policy in the field of human rights.

According to Tasnim news agency, in a thread on his Twitter account on Thursday, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's Deputy Judiciary Chief for International Affairs and Secretary of the country's High Council for Human Rights, denounced Germany for its anti-Iran stances at a special session of the Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in Iran.

“FM of German regime made a deceptive statement before the HRC today. Germany is the very country that equipped Saddam’s regime with chemical weapons, thereby killing over 13,000 Iranian citizens and injuring 100,000, including women and children in Kurdish city of Sardasht,” he said.

“German regime which still violates human rights of Iranians through inhumane unilateral sanctions and its dark record as an accomplice in assassination of Lt. Gen. Soleimani, should end its deceptive forgery policy in the field of human rights,” Gharibabadi added.

“While the rights of Iranians have widely been violated by the US, UK, Germany and France due to the imposition of UCMs and provision of support to, and hosting of terrorists who assassinated 17,000 innocent Iranians, holding a special session on Iran is deceptive and fraudulent,” he wrote.

The UN human rights chief was on Thursday debating a motion brought by a group of some 50 countries led by Germany and Iceland to create a new investigative fact-finding mission to probe alleged abuses in Iran since a wave of riots after the death of  Mahsa Amini on September 16.  The 22-year-old woman died in hospital in Tehran, three days after she collapsed in a police station.An investigation has attributed Amini’s death to her medical condition, dismissing allegations that she was beaten by police forces.

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