The Iranian government announced on Monday that it will not cooperate with the independent United Nations mission that is preparing to investigate violations against fundamental freedoms in the country after the death of the young Mahsa Amini.
“Iran will not cooperate in any way with the mission on alleged human rights issues,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kanani told a news conference.
“Tehran condemns the impulsive use of human rights issues against independent nations,” the Iranian diplomatic spokesman stressed.
Kanani considered as an “abuse” the “resolution approved last week by the UN Human Rights Council that he described as a “political committee”.
The resolution establishes the creation of an independent investigative mission that will have the objective of “collecting and analyzing evidence” of human rights violations after the repression that caused more than 300 deaths, including 40 children, and around 15,000 arrests.
In addition to the 15,000 people arrested in the demonstrations, 2,000 of whom were charged with various crimes for participating in the protests, six were sentenced to death.
The proposal was approved by 25 votes in favor, 16 abstentions and six against, including the People’s Republic of China, which unsuccessfully tried to remove from the text of the resolution the parts referring to the creation of the commission of inquiry.
Kanani pointed directly to Germany as one of the main “resolve-promoting” countries, noting that the United States, Israel and France foment the protests.
“We see the German government saying that it supports human rights, women’s rights and everything else, but it is a government that caused two world wars and cannot make these claims,” the spokesperson said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the German ambassador in Tehran, Hans-Udo Muzel, on Monday for the country’s attitude towards Iran.
This is the third time the German ambassador has been called to the Iranian Foreign Ministry since the protests began.
The Iranian government spokesman presented gas masks at the press conference to recall that in the war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s, “Western countries, and in particular Germany” supplied Baghdad with material for the manufacture of chemical weapons.
Next November 30 will be the day of the victims of Chemical Warfare, Kanani said.
The protests in Iran began after the death of the 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, arrested for not respecting the mandatory dress code for women.
Protesters call for an end to the Islamic Republic established in 1979.
Source: TSF
