NCRI – In a humiliating retreat, the mullahs’ regime announced on Saturday, 24 April, that it has withdrawn its candidacy for the United Nations Human Rights Council, despite the staggering costs this had had for the Iranian people.
The decision comes at a time when in recent days the religious fascism ruling Iran had been predicting in its Goebbels-type claims its “imminent approval for membership” in the UN Human Rights Council as an “international endorsement of Iran’s dedication for Human Rights”.
Relying on countries that are themselves violators of human rights or some trade counterparts, the Iranian regime had managed to nominate itself as a candidate for membership in the 47-member body. It offered huge bribes and lucrative contracts to various countries to obtain the necessary votes.
Human rights organizations, representatives of the Iranian Resistance in Geneva and New York and other world capitals, associations of supporters of the Resistance around the world, and many UN member states took extensive action to prevent the Iranian regime from being selected as a member of the Council.
The withdrawal came in the final weeks before the Council elections after the regime ascertained that it will not get a majority in the UN General Assembly vote. This action was taken to prevent a greater defeat for the regime. The mullahs’ regime was one of five countries nominated in the Asian group to become a member in the Council. The General Assembly will choose four of the countries as members for the human rights body. The other four countries are Malaysia, Maldives, Qatar and Thailand.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the regime’s inevitable retreat from membership in the Council as an indication of its overwhelming isolation and lack of legitimacy in the international arena. “The time has come for the expulsion of the mullahs’ regime from other international bodies especially those related to human rights and humanitarian issues”, Mrs. Rajavi said, adding, “This regime not only does not represent the Iranian people, but it is a disgrace to humanity and should be isolated from the international community over its atrocities against the people, including executions and the massacre of 120,000 political prisoners, and over its warmongering and export of terrorism in the region and the world and the killing of innocent people throughout the world.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 24, 2010
