In reaction to the annual report provided by the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights wrote separate letters to the UN Secretary General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights and mentioned that one of the European countries which backed up the appointment of special rapporteur for Iran has even avoided selling medical equipment to Iran for the treatment of innocent children.
He also said that the special rapporteur’s report lacks legitimacy and accuracy since it is based on false claims provided by terrorist groups.
The Secretary of HCHR also said that the recent report, while talking about the accountability of human rights violators, nowhere refers to the illegal, oppressive and criminal sanctions of the US regime and its destructive, damaging and deadly effects and consequences, as well as the US regime's international accountability for "violating the imperative laws" and "punishing" all Iranians by imposing "indiscriminating sanctions", is not mentioned
“This kind of one-sided and directional reporting, the Special Rapporteur violates the requirements of "neutrality", "good faith", "independence", "moderation" and "professionalism" and loses the condition of "competence" and diminishes the international position of the Rapporteur to the level of a US State Department employee, and therefore lacks the primary competence to assess the human rights situation in Iran, and in the absence of the condition of "efficiency" and degradation of this report, as a statement by an opposition group, cannot reflect the real status of the Iranian people's rights”, he added.
Bagheri also mentioned the Special Rapporteur's intentional disregard for the most important human rights issue in Iran and the region, in 2020 and said that such unprofessional conduct leaves no room for defending his impartiality and fairness. The assassination of the greatest defender of the rights of the nations of the region and the most powerful commander in the fight against terrorism, General Qassem Soleimani, which, according to the report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, to the forty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council, was considered as the violation of the three thematic areas of international law, namely "right to use of force", "humanitarian law" and "human rights law", was deliberately ignored. This crime had such an impact on the Iranian nation that tens of millions of Iranians came to streets, in tens of cities, for a week and mourned for the greatest savior of the people of the region, including Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims and followers of other religions Christians. The absence of this greatest human rights phenomenon of Iran in the Special Rapporteur's report leaves no doubt that he is not neutral and neither fair. The Special Rapporteur should be questioned that how one may talk about the human rights situation in Iran, but not a single word be raised about the issue which, according to the report of Agnes Callamard, was a "clear violation of the right to life under Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" and affected the entire Iranian nation and shocked and bereaved them, no word to be mentioned; and still one should be expected to accept the claim of defending human rights!
“This question has occupied the minds of all fair and impartial observers as to how a significant part of the Special Rapporteur's report is devoted to an allegation by a terrorist group or hostile to the Iranian people about the situation of one or more individuals whose rights have been protected and the necessary response on their case, has been already provided , but this report has not made the slightest reference to the issue which has affected the people of Iran, regardless of race, color, gender, religion, belief, political affiliation, social background, financial status, wealth and place of birth, and it has even affected those who the Special Rapporteur claims to be following up their situation, This reflects the Special Rapporteur's politicized approach and defined mission to communicate the allegations and accusations of terrorist groups and hostile elements acting against the Iranian nation, the human rights chief said.
The full text of HCHR Secretary's letters is available in the file below: