Tehran, YJC. Head of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Staff Mohammad Javad Larijani in a live interview on national TV on Sunday evening said there are a number of problems with the way the UN rapporteur covers Iran’s human rights issues.
The job of a special rapporteur is to make reports on Iranian
human rights from dawn to dusk, he said, adding "Our stance to reporting is not
at all negative. But we believe there are a number of clear faults with Ahmed
Shaheed which are not at all personal.”
Larijani stated "The first problem is that the appointment
of this rapporteur needs some justification. For example, what is it happening
in Iran htat does not happen in neighbor countreis such as Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, India, etc. Or, based on whose initiative has she been appointed? Is the
US authorized to talk about human rights in other countries while it is itself much
worse in this regard?”
"The second problem is that the rapporteur has to be
completely unbiased, whereas since the beginning of his job, he would go from
one TV to another and would take stances, so much so that he had turned into a showman for the media and was a reporter no more.”
The third problem is that he lacks a methodology, Larijani
said, adding "Right now there are a large number of accusations against each
and every country which you can find by doing a search on the internet. But a
rapporteur has to adopt a filtering methodology. Once we ask Ahmad Shaheed what
he methodology is, he says he sniffs things and understands them by himself. Our
response to that is that this is no methodology that could be trusted.”
Asserting that Shaheed is a fan of terrorism, the Iranian human
rights chief stated "He has a responsibility to fight terrorism. But he names
as defenders of human rights those people who have committed terrorist acts.”
Asked why prosecutions such as that of Reihane Jabbari have
turned global through the media while it has many counterparts in the West gone
unnoticed, Larijani said "The reason for it is only retribution which is backed
by a very sensible and bright verdict from the Quran; and the West is an enemy
of the Quran.”