Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday flatly rejected the US State Department’s annual report on human rights, stressing that such repetitive, unfounded, politically-charged and meddlesome reports won’t give them legitimacy.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh made the comment in response to the US State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released on Tuesday, saying the publication of repetitive and baseless reports would lend no legitimacy to such reports.
The spokesman added that it’s clear that no one can expect the US government, which is addicted to lying, to tell the truth and existing realities.
“Therefore, the biased, politically-charged and meddlesome nature of the report is clear and obvious to all and to the Iranian nation,” Khatibzadeh noted.
He said that the US government’s history is filled with wars, coups, aggression, assassinations, kidnappings, economic blockades, and killings of innocents in different parts of the world, the Foreign Ministry’s website reported.
Khatibzadeh added that the US government is the main violator of human rights and, therefore, is in no position to speak about lofty concepts such as human rights.
He noted that the US sheds crocodile tears for the Iranian people at a time when its own crimes against Iranians, including shooting down of a passenger plane, provocation of its internal lackeys to assassinate people and officials over the past decades, and all-out efforts to deprive the noble people of Iran of their basic rights remain in the memory of Iranians.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman noted that the US’s unilateral coercive measures, including illegal economic sanctions, are a clear example of economic terrorism against the Iranian people and are the main obstacle to the import of vital medicine for Iranian patients, that have themselves led to a gross violation of the rights of the Iranian people.
He described the claims of the US regime as hypocritical that are aimed at achieving illegitimate political goals.
Khatibzadeh underlined that the direct order by the then US president to cowardly assassinate General Qassem Soleimani, who was the champion of the fight against terrorism in the Western Asian region, perfectly reveals the terrorist nature of the United States.
He added that the US government is turning a blind eye to the gross and systematic violations of human rights in the country and in its vassal allies.
He also noted that all people have repeatedly seen how racial discrimination against minorities and African Americans are happening in the US systemically and on a large scale, which in itself has led to mass protests by black people and other citizens in the country.
Khatibzadeh further noted that unbridled police brutality and the murder of black citizens before the eyes of people reveal the anti-human rights approaches of the US government and, more regrettably, the US’s response to such rights abuses have been merely show actions, indifference and inattention.
The spokesman finally noted that Iran, in line with its own humanitarian laws and also its international obligations, has always tried to realize the rights of the great Iranian nation and promote real causes such as true human rights.
Such baseless and hypocritical statements and reports will not undermine the Iranian government and people’s will and movement down this path to build a dear and proud country in line with its own religious and national values and principles, he concluded.
The US State Department in its annual report on April 12 once against leveled such baseless accusations against Iran as “arbitrary arrest or detention” of political activists, “denial of fair public trial,” as well as “politically motivated reprisal against individuals located outside of the country.”
Iran has repeatedly warned of the exploitation of human rights as a pressure tool by Western countries.
Source: Iranian media and Al-Manar English Website
