Iranian regime’s crimes against humanity must be referred to UN Security Council
On Wednesday night, March 23, 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council approved a resolution presented by 39 UN members to extend “the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights” in Iran for “a further period of one year.” This approval came despite extensive efforts by the religious fascism ruling Iran and a number of other countries, themselves violators of human rights, to prevent ratification of the resolution.
The resolution “regretting the lack of cooperation” by the Iranian regime “with the requests of the Human Rights Council and the Assembly” made in those resolutions issued by the UN General Assembly against the severe violation of human rights in Iran, and “expressing serious concern” regarding the situation of human rights in Iran as noted in Mr. Ahmed Shaheed’s report, as well as “the lack of access permitted to the Special Rapporteur to travel” to Iran, calls on the Iranian regime “to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur and to permit access to visit the country, as well as all information necessary to allow the fulfilment of the mandate”.
In addition to EU members, many other members of the Human Rights Council voted for this resolution, including South Korea, Macedonia, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Qatar, Panama, Paraguay, Albania, Saudi Arabia, Botswana and El Salvador.
The Iranian Resistance welcomes the renewal of the Special Rapporteur’s mandate and calls on the Human Rights Council and the Special Rapporteur to refer the dossier of the Iranian regime’s crimes to the Security Council and to have those ordering these crimes against humanity and their perpetrators to be brought to justice. This is the only way to confront a regime that stands as the number one violator of human rights in the world with 120,000 political executions and seven deadly attacks on Iranian refugees in camps Ashraf and Liberty, and that constantly and systematically tramples on UN resolutions and denies visits to the Special Rapporteur and other mandate holders.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 24, 2016
