Iran Dismisses Fact-Finding Mission’s Report

The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a report that the UN’s so-called fact-finding mission has issued about what it has called crackdown on protests in Iran, saying the report is based on wrong information and lacks legal basis.

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10 March 2024

EghtesadOnline: The UN fact-finding mission alleged on Friday that Iran’s crackdown on protests sparked by the September 2022 death of an Iranian young woman and alleged discrimination against women and girls amount to serious human rights violations.

In a statement on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani categorically condemned the mechanism of the so-called mission, saying the repeated groundless allegations in the report are based on “incorrect and biased information” and lack any legal credibility.

Denouncing the attempts by a number of Western governments to foment Iranophobia and defame Iran by forming the “ridiculous show of human rights” through the so-called fact-finding mission, the spokesman said the report encompasses an organized set of distortions of facts and falsifications that have reversed the realities purposefully.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran slams the report, which has been compiled with a plot hatched by the Zionist regime, the US and number of Western countries, as a clear example of abuse of the excellent human rights concepts and values with the aim of fulfilling short-sighted political purposes and believes that it has no legal acceptability and effect whatsoever,” he said.

The spokesman said the report revealed that the so-called fact-finding mission has been paid and ordered by its German, British, American and Zionist sponsors and has played with the UN human rights mechanism to serve the sinister and illegal interests of those regimes.

He advised the initiators of the mission to deal with the violations of human rights in their own countries instead of interfering in the internal affairs of Iran and to pay attention to the violation of rights of thousands of women and children in Gaza, where over 30,000 civilians have been killed in the Israeli strikes in the past five months.

“The countries that have violated the rights of other nations and have been complicit in all of the Zionist regime’s crimes and massacre of civilians, particularly women and children, cannot claim (to advocate) or judge the situation of human rights in another country. Instead, they have to be held accountable for their crimes in the blatant violation of human rights,” Kanaani added.

He pointed to the formation of a special committee on the Iranian president’s order to investigate the 2022 unrest in Iran, adding that its final report has been submitted to the president recently.

The report has studied various factors in the formation of unrest, includes diverse measures in accordance with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s responsibility to protect the rights of citizens and the law enforcement forces, and involves a series of suggestions and recommendations as well, he added. / Tasnim