HCHR statement on assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist

The full passage of the statement reads as follows,

In the Name of the Almighty

Trump’s maximum pressure policy which is an updated version of Obama’s paralyzing pressure aims to disrupt Iran progress with a two-sided blade of sanctions and assassinations. Even though the mentioned sanctions are products of the decisions made by the White House and the Congress, European countries are the executors and by imposing sanctions on the areas of medicine and medical equipment, they are trying to make higher costs for Iranian people so that they could make Iranians refrain from pursuing their success. In parallel with the American-European hostility, the terrorist Zionist regime which has a long dark background in killing and assassination plays the role of the executioner and attempts to deprive Iranian people of scientific and technological treasures by eliminating our national elites.

The targeted and unfair assassination of the prominent scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizade occurred against the international treaties and instruments which consider the right to have access to technology as one of the certain and indisputable rights of nations.

The systematic assassination of Iranian scientists during the past few years is on the one hand a clear violation of the peremptory norms of international law and on the other hand a violation of international human rights including the international covenant on civil and political rights (6) which entail the international responsibility of involving states and also the individual criminal responsibility of those who commit and assist the commission of such crimes. Also, such terrorist acts entail the international responsibility, resulted from omission, of those states which remain silent with respect to the clear violation of peremptory norms and ironically claim to be human rights advocates.

Our four-decade experience has proved that as always the blood of the innocent reveals the hypocrisy of the hypocrite, enhances the national self-confidence and creates new blossoms of the Islamic Revolution. Such incidents leave aside the painless wealthy and reveals the real identity of those who doubt the efficiency of resistance and again empowers people as the main owners of the glorious Islamic Revolution.

The revolutionary accountability requires that all people particularly the elite monitor the deceptions and tricks applied by political currents which try to publicize a sense of reconciliation and retreat in sensitive occasions and not permit this mysterious game to target their national self-beliefs and self-sufficiency which have been resulted from sacred bloods so that not the cost of the enemies’ advances would not be paid from our national power.

The High Council for Human Rights commemorates the high position of martyred Mohsen Fakhrizade who has had a remarkable role in placing the Islamic Iran in global levels of nuclear science and technology and offers condolences to the sacred position of Imam Zaman (A.J.), his righteous representative Ayatollah Khamenei and also to his respectful family and the people of Iran. The HCHR expresses strong condemnation of the unfair assassination of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s great commander of science and technology and stresses that the silence of international bodies and western countries who claim to combat terrorism and taking neutral stances with respect to this assassination practically conveys legitimacy of terrorism.

The HCHR demands that the UN Secretary General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the President of the Human Rights Council and western countries denounce this criminal and terrorist act unconditionally and explicitly in order not to be accused of granting legitimacy to terrorism and utilize all mechanisms to cooperate with the Iranian judicial system so as to identify, prosecute and punish those who have ordered and committed this crime.