By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

    

 Are the words “human rights” and “hypocrisy” linked together?

Perhaps, as is revealed by a glance at the morally bankrupt, culturally depraved, politically dishonest, economically terroristic, and practically murderous countries.

The above description aptly fits most of the western regimes, in particular the US, and its client states in the so-called Third World.

Yet, the height of hypocrisy is that these regimes accuse others of human rights violations through vain attempts to conceal their own criminal activities while distorting the facts and realities in countries whose independence and progress they try to undermine.

This is the sad state of the world in which we live and where the United Nations which is supposed to be a representative organization of all world countries, bows to the US to make the activities of its Human Rights Council meaningless.

These deficiencies were exposed by the Iranian Foreign Minister at the 52nd session of the HRC in Geneva on Monday in his address during which the representatives of regimes notorious for their hypocrisy walked out, while the rest of the audience applauded his frank and forthright presentation of the brilliant human rights record of the Islamic Republic.

He said: “For us, respect for human rights and dignity is a core value that is deeply rooted in our national tradition and profoundly embedded in our religious beliefs. We have worked tirelessly and constantly toward better protection and promotion of human rights and dignity.”

Hossein Amir Abdollahian pointing out that “protection and promotion of human rights is a shared sentiment for all nations, and no State or a group of States should entitle themselves to claim exclusive ownership or custody of human rights, and should abstain from coercing others into submitting to any self-styled interpretation of human rights, said:

“I would like here to outline a few points concerning human rights and the way this lofty concept is unfortunately manipulated for political purposes of a limited number of States.”

He expressed regret that though the resolution that established the HRC “reaffirms, quite purposefully the purposes and principles such as developing friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, in practice, the Council has been forced to take up certain agendas that neither serve such purposes and principles nor do they contribute to friendly relations among nations.”

Iran’s top diplomat advised the UN Human Rights Council “to reclaim its credibility and effectiveness by upholding ‘the principles of cooperation and genuine dialogue’ among member States.”

He castigated the US and its European accomplices in crimes against humanity for their “sheer hypocrisy” in indulging in poisonous propaganda and economic sanctions against independent countries, including Iran, to deprive people of basic rights to health, to education, and to life, while claiming to be advocates of human rights.

It is worth recalling that a few months back the western regimes had openly instigated a bunch of thugs, traitors, terrorists, blasphemers, and morally-loose women to indulge in arson, murder, vandalism, and sacrilege in some parts of Iran.

This hypocrisy was further revealed when a top HRC official while fielding questions from an Iranian news reporter in Geneva, refused to answer the charges of double-standards that the US and the West apply to human rights.