TEHRAN (Iran News) –Human rights is a very important issue for the nations and for this reason some countries, mostly the Westerners, have tried to turn it into a tool for their sometimes ill intentions, namely, dominance on the nations, and gradually human issue is turning into a laughing stock by the Western states and it becomes meaningless.
In recent years countries which have not bowed down to the arrogant powers have been threatened by the weapon of “human rights” and they have been accused of violating the human rights and countries like the Islamic Republic of Iran have been the major target of the Westerners for violating human rights.
Following any incident or riots or unrests in those countries whicht do not follow the West, they are bombarded with accusations of violating human rights while the Westerners themselves are the main violators of the human rights according to their own media, experts and activists but their governments rudely ignore them and when it comes to independent countries they suddenly wake up and start raising accusations of human rights violation.
For weeks the Western countries led by the U.S. have started the “violation of human rights game” with the Islamic Republic of Iran and have pushed the international bodies to condemn Tehran for violating human rights and they have even shown interventionist policies by approving some resolutions and statements against Tehran while Tehran has tried to stop rioters which is the right of any government in dealing with illegal activities.
On Thursday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman lashed out at Western governments over their instrumental use of human rights against other countries, saying the United States and its allies are “convicted in the court of human conscience” due to their “shameful” record.
Nasser Kanaani made the remark in a string of tweets on Thursday as he attached to his posts a picture of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who murdered African American George Floyd during a violent arrest in May 2020, and the merciless torture of inmates at the infamous US-run Guantanamo prison.
“Those with record of committing crimes against other nations and backing an occupier and terrorist regime, don’t have moral/legal right to comment on human rights in other countries. HR is a sacred value and Iran believes that it’s Islamic, humane, legal and moral imperative to promote it,” said one of the tweets.
“Those HR violators are better to look at their own shameful record and stop political and instrumental use of human rights. U.S. government and many other self-proclaimed advocates of human rights are convicted in the court of human conscience because of their despicable historical conduct,” said another tweet.
Last Thursday, the UN Human Rights Council convened a meeting at the request of Germany and Iceland to discuss alleged human rights violations in Iran during the handling of recent foreign-backed riots in the country.
The body voted to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the purported abuses.
Foreign-backed riots have hit some Iranian provinces since 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini died at the hospital on September 16, three days after she collapsed at a police station.
The West’s hostile approach and policy does not want to come an end as it wants to continue this policy as it tries to outs Iran from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) under pretext of violating women’s rights.
This time it is the gang leader, the U.S., which leads this move as it tries to remove Iran from the 45-member U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) over the government’s denial of women’s rights and brutal crackdown on protests according to the claim of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris .
Iran is just starting a four-year term on the commission, which meets annually every March and aims to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.
This claim comes from a country which is itself famous for violating of rights of migrants, black community and women and many women in this country face rights violation and black people are the victim of racist policies of the country but unfortunately the U.S. Administration is indifferent towards them and even claim that the U.S. is cradle of democracy and freedom.
According to the U.S. media, women face many problems in this country and statesmen do not take any serious decision to help them but with even smallest incident occurs in any country which is at odd with the West, suddenly the U.S. and allies cry foul and start “human rights violations game”.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a very ardent supporter of human rights and women’s rights but there is a difference between women’s rights in Islam and Western culture as Islam pays great value to women’s dignity and does not look at them as a commodity and means of misuse.
So the West is better to stop this accusation game and solve their domestic issues and respect women’s rights in their own countries than meddling in other countries’ domestic laws and affairs, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, as it has reiterated before, will remain supporter of women’s rights and human rights but not in the way the West likes because values in Islam and the West are totally different and the Islamic Republic is determined to stick to the Islamic values in all issues.
