The UN body also condemned rising number of executions and suppression of protestors
Maryam Rajavi: Imposition of comprehensive sanctions against this regime is an imperative international step
NCRI – On December 18, 2009, the United Nations General Assembly passed a strongly-worded resolution condemning “Serious, ongoing and recurring human rights violations” in Iran, including the increasing number of hangings and stonings, as well as instances of discrimination, brutal suppression of women and ethnic and religious minorities, perpetration of violence and intimidation by state-controlled militias against protestors leading to a large number of deaths and injuries, mass trials, obtaining of forced confessions through torture, and rape.
The UN body also condemned rising number of executions and suppression of protestors
Maryam Rajavi: Imposition of comprehensive sanctions against this regime is an imperative international step
NCRI – On December 18, 2009, the United Nations General Assembly passed a strongly-worded resolution condemning “Serious, ongoing and recurring human rights violations” in Iran, including the increasing number of hangings and stonings, as well as instances of discrimination, brutal suppression of women and ethnic and religious minorities, perpetration of violence and intimidation by state-controlled militias against protestors leading to a large number of deaths and injuries, mass trials, obtaining of forced confessions through torture, and rape.
The resolution was adopted despite the fact that the clerical regime had strived in world capitals and in Geneva and New York, over the last several months to strike it down. Enticing proposals as well as intimidations by the regime failed to prevent adoption of the resolution at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. This time around the regime used all its capacity to force those in favor of the resolution to abstain and thus thwart the adoption of the resolution at the UN General Assembly.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the NCRI, described the 57th resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran by UN organs as a definitive vote by the international community on the illegitimacy of the ruling religious fascism in Iran and added: After the passing of this resolution, and in circumstances where the chants by “Down with Khamenei” and “Down with dictator” can be heard by millions of Iranians in streets across Iran, and while the portraits of [regime’s founder Ruhollah] Khomeini and [mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei are set on fire by Iranians, any form of negotiations, deal-making, or appeasement toward this regime is both devoid of legitimacy and an irretrievable political mistake. Making contacts and deals with a regime heading towards its ultimate downfall will result in nothing short of disasters and jeopardize the friendship of the Iranian people.
Mrs. Rajavi demanded the referral of the dossier on human rights violations in Iran to the UN Security Council and adoption of binding and urgent measures. The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect also said that the imposition of comprehensive sanctions against the regime, both due to its nuclear weapons project and also its brutal human rights violations, is a necessary international step.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 18, 2009
