Secretary of Irans High Council for Human Rights has dismissed the recent report by the United Nations special rapporteur about human rights situation in the Islamic Republic. The report byAhmed Shaheed, which was presented to the 31st session of the Human Rights Council on Thursday, containedno new content and was not credible, Mohammad Javad Larijani ...

[caption id="attachment_111343" align="alignright" width="198"] Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Foreign Ministry spokeswoman decried politicization of the concept of human rights, stressing that the issue should be considered with technical views on the basis of documented evidence. The issue ...

[caption id="attachment_112518" align="alignright" width="168"] Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham[/caption] TEHRAN (ISNA)- An Iranian delegation has met with the the UN special rapporteur on Iran Ahmed Shaheed. Our delegations and missions visited Geneva and New York and met with Ahmed Shaheed. The delegations expressed Irans ...

A senior Iranian official has questioned the legality of appointment ofa UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, calling on Ahmed Shaheed, the current rights investigator on the Islamic Republic, to resign. Appointing a special rapporteur on Iran requires some justification, Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad ...