The Iranian regime has branded the annual United Nations report on the human rights abuses, soaring executions and press censorship in Iran as ‘biased and unjust’.
Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior aide to the Supreme Leader, said the report by UN chief Ban Ki-Moon was prepared ‘without any research, investigation and discussion with Iranian officials’, adding: “This is an indication of standing against the Iranian government.”
The UN’s finding’s have angered the Iranian regime by exposing the false claims that Hassan Rouhani is a moderate, and that human rights abuses and executions have increased under his rule.
Meanwhile, senior Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Hassan Asafari attacked the UN Secretary-General for his ‘sympathy’ with the drug traffickers who are jailed or executed in Iran.
The U.N. chief said in a new report on Iran that Hassan Rouhani’s promises of greater freedoms in Iran have not resulted in any major improvements regarding human rights and freedom of expression.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s annual report also expressed alarm at the reported recent increase in executions in Iran.
The member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Sunday: “Based on the law, heavy punishments have been considered for those who supply, plant, produce and deal drugs and we don’t care for the UN protests at our attitude towards a drug-trafficker who smuggles hundreds or thousands of kilograms of narcotics into society.
“Why does Mr Ban Ki-moon not take a position on the martyrdom of 4,000 young Iranians who have been killed in the fight against drugs and sympathizes with the drug-traffickers who have martyred our youth?”
The Iranian police claimed to have lost more than 3,720 of their personnel in the country’s combat against narcotics since the 1979 revolution, according to the state-run Fars news agency.
Iran said it had also recently established a central database and strengthened police-judiciary cooperation in a new effort to combat organized crime. The regime also burns more than 60 tons of seized narcotics a year as a symbol of its determination to fight drugs, Fars said.