{"id":231550,"date":"2020-12-20T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=231550"},"modified":"2023-01-22T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:14:53","slug":"following-un-human-rights-resolution-meeting-irans-foreign-minister-is-like-feeding-the-crocodile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/following-un-human-rights-resolution-meeting-irans-foreign-minister-is-like-feeding-the-crocodile\/","title":{"rendered":"Following UN Human Rights Resolution, Meeting Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Is Like Feeding the Crocodile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Record-of-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-the-Foreign-Minister-of-the-Iranian-regime\"<\/a>On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted a resolution<\/a> condemning human rights violations in Iran \u2013 the 67th of its kind. The move was predictably met with backlash from Iran\u2019s regime, with a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry insisting that it has no legal validity while also attempting to spin the details of the vote in order to whitewash the atrocities of the regime.
\nThat position could be described as pure hypocrisy articulated by the regime\u2019s Foreign Ministry. Although Iran is technically a signatory to multiple international agreements on human rights, its leaders routinely disregard specific details of those agreements by arguing that universal principles are rendered invalid if they conflict with local principles, meaning the inhumane Sharia laws. Under such \u201cprinciples\u201d imprisonment, torture, and execution of dissidents becomes an everyday practice under charges of \u201cenmity towards the God\u201d.
\nThat latter charge was applied, for instance, to Ruhollah Zam, who was abducted by Iranian operatives while traveling in Iraq, after he had spent years living as a refugee in France. Zam was hanged last Saturday after his conviction was upheld by Iran\u2019s Supreme Court. The execution prompted a widespread outcry from European officials and led to the cancellation of a planned Europe-Iran Economic Forum.
\nMost Western nations have been consistent in public statements on that topic, although few have seen fit to follow through with concrete actions designed to compel the Iranian regime to adopt more humane behavior.
\nIn other words, the West has typically embraced each of the 67 resolutions on Iran\u2019s human rights as a potential object of shame for the Iranian regime. And at every turn, they have effectively ignored the fact of that regime continuing to exhibit no shame whatsoever. While some of Iran\u2019s most serious critics are hopeful that the Zam execution might prompt some Western policymakers to buck this trend, there is still an open question as to whether they will take notice or respond appropriately to the Iranian judiciary\u2019s and foreign ministry\u2019s blanket denials of the UN resolution\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n

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\nOn Thursday, December 17, a prisoner named Shahab Javid<\/a> was executed in Qom central prison, and on Saturday two Baluchi prisoners by the names Behnam and Scheib Rigi were executed in Zahedan, southeast of Iran. At the same time, it was announced that the foreign ministers of 4+1 are scheduled to meet the regime\u2019s foreign minister Javad Zarif<\/a> on Monday, December 21. Last Monday, due to Zam\u2019s execution, the Europe-Iran Economic Forum was canceled, but right after the UN Human Rights resolution and execution of 3 more prisoners, the foreign ministers of 4+1 are going to meet Zarif.
\n\u201cMullahs\u2019 regime takes European nationals hostage; lures and abducts Iranian political activists in Europe to Iran and executes them. Last Monday, a meeting with Zarif was canceled over this. In just one week, who has been baptized and how?\u201d tweeted Mohammad Mohaddessin, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of NCRI<\/a>, adding:
\n\u201cMeeting someone compared with Hitler\u2019s FM by an MEP, former polish FM, is, as Churchill said, feeding the Crocodile. Iran’s regime uses these ties as permission to execute and assassinate. Severing ties provide real prospects for relations with Iran\u2019s people in a free Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

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4-Meeting someone compared with Hitler\u2019s FM by an MEP, former polish FM, is, as Churchill said, feeding the Crocodile. #Iran<\/a> regime uses these ties as permission to execute & assassinate. Severing ties provides real prospects for relations with Iran\u2019s people in a free Iran.<\/p>\n

— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) December 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n