Shaheed rejects UN report as "Unfounded"

The recent report by the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, is "unfounded and full of lies", Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said. Amoli Larijani on Wednesday strongly rejected a report on Iran's human rights by Ahmed Shaheed as another scandal for the western governments. He made the remarks in a meeting with senior officials of the Judiciary, stressing that that currently, the human rights have been degraded in the western communities to the extent that the people of the entire world know that the western governments do not respect human rights. "If the western governments had respected human rights, they would not have kept silent on massacre of people in Bahrain, Afghanistan and other parts of the world," he said. He said that the report on human rights in Iran released by UN human rights rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed is 'totally unfounded and full of lies'. "Unfortunately, the western governments especially the US are using the human rights as a pressure lever against independent states, whereas, Israel enjoys their full support in perpetrating state terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity." In his latest report on Iran's human rights conditions, Shaheed accused the Islamic Republic of Iran of widespread human rights violations. In response, Iranian officials said that Ahmed Shaheed has only parroted the unfounded allegations raised by anti-revolution elements against Iran since he had been tasked with accusing Iran. "Since the very first day that Mr. Ahmad Shaheed was introduced as the United Nations rapporteur (on Iran) we guessed that he was a an American agent, but his later reports assured us that he has been assigned to this mission by the US," Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told FNA on Saturday. "Ahmed Shaheed contacts anti-revolution elements instead of Iranian authorities to receive information and to prepare his reports, and acts in harmony with the Americans when compiling reports (on Iran)," he added.