UNITED NATIONS (Dispatches) -- Iran has condemned a UN resolution on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic, urging Canada as the sponsor of the motion to instead end its genocide of indigenous people and complicity in Israel crimes against the Palestinians.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Thursday rejected “baseless allegations” after the UN General Assembly Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural approved the anti-Iran draft resolution by a vote of 79-30, with 71 abstentions.
The resolution, he said, is based on weak and scattered votes, most of them garnered under political pressure and various threats.
Canada and other main supporters of the motion, Khatibzadeh said, are addicted to the failed defamation project against Iran.
“Unfortunately, some actors, who have a long history of gross human rights violations, including by selling weapons to authoritarian, occupying and aggressor regimes, are using human rights as a tool to advance their own political ambitions and intentions,” he said.
Iran condemns the move by the Canadian government and the other co-sponsors of the resolution as “a clear example of the abuse of transcendent human rights concepts and values to advance short-sighted political motives,” the spokesman said, adding the measure lacks “legal credibility and effect.”
Such “immoral and unjustified activities” do not help promote respect for human rights on the world stage and “merely fuel negative stereotypes and political labeling against nations”, Khatibzadeh said.
Instead of showing hypocritical compassion for human rights in Iran, Canadian authorities are advised to stop supporting the U.S. government’s economic terrorism against the Iranian nation and hosting corrupt people and thieves, who have looted the Iranian people’s wealth, he added.
The Canadian authorities should try to reform their inhumane practices inside their own country and

abroad, stop the systematic policy of genocide against their indigenous people, and stand accountable for their complicity in the Zionist regime’s crimes against the Palestinians, Khatibzadeh said.
The spokesman said strong religious faith, strong cultural infrastructure, sound legal frameworks, and deep-rooted social practices, as well as protection of human rights are among the main pillars of the Islamic Republic.
Khatibzadeh drew attention to a number of steps that Iran had taken to promote human rights both at home and at an international level, including fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and racial discrimination in the international arena, hosting a large number of immigrants from violence-stricken countries, making judicial reforms and increasing the participation of women in senior management positions.
Earlier, Zahra Ershadi, deputy permanent representative of Iran to the UN, called the anti-Iran resolution an “insincere political move” that exposes a deliberate policy of incitement to “Iranophobia.”
The resolution’s sponsors — Canada, the U.S. and child-killer Tel Aviv regime — have come together to lecture others on human rights while they are themselves the main proponents of racism, occupation and abhorrent treatment of indigenous people, she added.