By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The term “human rights”, though attractive to all human beings, has been badly twisted out of context by heartless human beings to indulge in the most inhuman violation of the rights of humanity.
The UN states in its flawed charter that its “mission is to prevent the scourge of war and advance human rights and dignity”, a preposterous claim that was never materialized as is evident by the course of events all over the world since the World Body was founded in 1945.
A scrutiny of the human rights situation around the globe reveals that although regimes that deprived the people they ruled of fundamental freedoms and indulged in genocide of religious, ethnic, and lingual minorities, did it for a certain period of time before vanishing from the face of the earth, the chief violator of human rights has remained on the world scene, sadistically committing the most horrific crimes against mankind that make not just the brief Nazi atrocities in Europe and the unabated Zionist terrorism in Palestine, but the mass massacres of Chengiz Khan in the 13th century, pale into comparison.
The culprit, which is the public enemy number one of mankind, is the United States of America or more properly the regimes that continue to move in and out of Washington, while committing the most horrific violation of human rights both on the domestic scene and throughout the world.
It is worth noting that those who ever held power in the US are an indelible blot on the conscience of humanity as their sordid record speaks for itself, starting from the genocide of the native Amerindians (‘redskins’) and the enslavement of the black Africans to the present terrorizing of world Muslims.
In between is the deep hatred of the US regimes for the yellow race as borne out by the unpardonable atomic bombing of Japan, the decade-long slaughter of the Vietnamese, the failed decimation of the Koreans, and the current vilification of the Chinese.
At the same time, the US holds most of Latin America in thrall, while hatching coups and bloody insurgencies in the independent Spanish-speaking countries and terrorizing them with economic sanctions.
Even Europe has not been spared of the economic-political US stranglehold as could be seen by the presence of American military bases, and the war into which Ukraine has been unnecessarily pushed in a bid to ruin Russia.
In spite of its systematic suppression of human beings, the US regime which has robbed the ordinary Americans of liberties and spread racial segregation in the society, resorts to the height of hypocrisy in accusing other countries, especially those refusing to bow to pressures, of violation of human rights.
The US which had instigated Saddam of the tyrannical Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad to launch the devastating 8-year war on the nascent Islamic Republic of Iran in 1980 by supplying sophisticated armaments and chemical weapons to the aggressor, is trying to depict Iran’s stabilizing role in the region as ‘promoting terrorism’ and the humanitarian system of Islamic government as discrimination against minorities, which compared to the US and the countries, enjoy equal rights with their Muslim compatriots as per the famous epistle of Prophet Muhammad’s (SAWA) Vicegerent, Imam Ali (AS) to his governor of the then Christian majority Egypt, Malek Ashtar:
“Habituate your heart to mercy for the subjects and to affection and kindness for them. Do not stand over them like greedy beasts who feel it is enough to devour them. (Your subjects are of) two kinds (of people), either your brothers in religion or like you (human beings) in creation. They will commit slips and encounter mistakes. They may act wrongly, willfully or by neglect. So, extend to them your forgiveness and pardon, in the same way as you would like Allah to extend His forgiveness and pardon to you.”
The bleak, black, and bloody record of the US requires volumes to state, and includes the bombing of Afghanistan into stone-age, the killing of some two million Iraqi people during the recent occupation, the 7-year Saudi devastation of Yemen, and support for Israel’s crimes against humanity.
In view of these undeniable facts, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, dismissing the latest US accusation as “repetitive, baseless and without any legitimacy”, aptly said:
“The US administration, with a history full of wars, coups, aggression, assassinations, kidnappings, economic blockades and the killing of innocent people around the world, has been the main violator of human rights and, therefore, it is in no way qualified to speak of such sublime concepts as human rights.”