Iranian High Council for Human Rights Secretary-General Kazem Gharibabadi dismissed on Wednesday the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council' (UNHRC) Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (IIMM) on his country as biased and politicized.
Speaking at the UNHRC summit in Geneva, Gharibabadi stressed that the agency's investigation of the alleged violations of human rights during the recent protests in Iran is "hypocritical" given that similar situations take place in countries such as France, yet, those are not being probed. He also dismissed the "unilateral and oppressive sanctions that have brought pain and suffering to Iranian women and children" as "crimes against humanity."
Earlier in the day, the UNHRC published the report on its IIMM on Iran in which it urged the Middle Eastern country to "end its continuing crackdown on peaceful protesters and halt the wave of executions, mass arrests and detentions since the death in custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini last September."
