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Wed, 06/22/2011 - 13:48
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Iran Lambasts West's Instrumental Use of Human Rights
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi condemned the western countries' politically-tainted attitude towards human rights, saying that the West is using human rights issues as an instrument to pressure the independent states.
"The human rights issue has now become a political tool for the westerners," Salehi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday and in response to the question why Iran denied the UN human rights rapporteur the permission to visit the country.
He underlined Iran's respect for human rights, and said Tehran is not worried about a scrutiny of its human rights conditions, but it has some reservations because of the West's double-standard policies on human rights issues.
He reminded a recent UN resolution against Iran's human rights conditions, and said, "The resolution which was issued against Iran mainly dealt with the country's human rights conditions and was actually the result of the westerners' double-standard policies vis-à-vis Iran, because we had asked them to send special rapporteurs to Iran before they issued the resolution.
"When Iran itself raises such a demand, why did they need to issue a resolution against Iran?"
"They try to find fault with Iran, while Muslim minorities in the Western countries are not even allowed to wear hijab, and this indicates the double-standard policies of the West," he added.
Iran has always lashed out at the western countries for using human rights issues as a tool and pretext for pressurizing independent states to conceal their own crimes and wrong deeds.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in November lambasted continued violation of human rights by certain European countries, and asked them to listen to the demands of their people.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry in November issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to join the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.
It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for the human rights in the world, has despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite President Barack Obama's promise, still not shut down the horrendous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.
"The human rights issue has now become a political tool for the westerners," Salehi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday and in response to the question why Iran denied the UN human rights rapporteur the permission to visit the country.
He underlined Iran's respect for human rights, and said Tehran is not worried about a scrutiny of its human rights conditions, but it has some reservations because of the West's double-standard policies on human rights issues.
He reminded a recent UN resolution against Iran's human rights conditions, and said, "The resolution which was issued against Iran mainly dealt with the country's human rights conditions and was actually the result of the westerners' double-standard policies vis-à-vis Iran, because we had asked them to send special rapporteurs to Iran before they issued the resolution.
"When Iran itself raises such a demand, why did they need to issue a resolution against Iran?"
"They try to find fault with Iran, while Muslim minorities in the Western countries are not even allowed to wear hijab, and this indicates the double-standard policies of the West," he added.
Iran has always lashed out at the western countries for using human rights issues as a tool and pretext for pressurizing independent states to conceal their own crimes and wrong deeds.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in November lambasted continued violation of human rights by certain European countries, and asked them to listen to the demands of their people.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry in November issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to join the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.
It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for the human rights in the world, has despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite President Barack Obama's promise, still not shut down the horrendous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.
