Iran’s International Ministry issued a strongly worded assertion of condemnation in response to a UN resolution that has raised alarm on human rights violations dedicated by the Islamic Republic.
The decision mentioned and handed by the Normal Meeting Third Committee expressed “severe concern on the alarmingly frequent use of the dying penalty.” It urged Iranian authorities to drop such sentences in opposition to baby offenders.
Sending 246 convicts to the gallows final 12 months, Iran was the world’s second prime executioner after China. In defiance of worldwide strain, the autocratic institution has defended the observe as implementation of divine rule.
The UN decision additionally delivered to mild “arbitrary arrests” in Iran, calling on Iranian officers “to launch individuals detained for the train of their elementary freedoms.”
In his assertion, Iran’s overseas ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh mentioned the decision was a repeat of “baseless claims” fed by “false data.” He questioned the “authorized credibility” of the votes that he alleged have been garnered “with political strain and intimidation.”
The decision was superior by delegates representing Canada, whose ties with the Islamic Republic have been deteriorating for practically a decade. The committee assembly was a ping-pong of harsh exchanges between Iranian and Canadian delegates.
And in Tehran, Khatibzadeh attacked the Canadian authorities for his or her “dependancy” to “discrediting” the Islamic Republic, advising them to desert “the systematic coverage of genocide” in opposition to “Canada’s indigenous inhabitants.”
In 2012, the Canadian authorities, led by former prime minister Stephen Harper, severed ties with the Islamic republic, closing its embassy in Tehran over the latter’s help to the Syrian authorities in addition to its threats in opposition to Israel. Iran accused the Harper authorities of performing beneath strain from its No. 1 enemy, the Jewish state in Tel Aviv.
A brand new stress was launched into the already strained ties in late 2019. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a Kiev-bound Ukraine International flight, killing all 176 individuals on board, the vast majority of them Iranian-Canadian twin nationals.
The Canadian government has been on the middle of worldwide efforts — although with no tangible progress — to carry Iranian authorities accountable for the tragedy. Tehran has accused Canada of overstepping its limits and “politicizing” the matter.
