The “surreal” decision to give Iran a vocal platform is “an insult to the memory of all those Tehran has gunned down, executed and tortured in recent months” writes Labour MP Steve McCabe.
In the past week, Iran’s foreign minister was invited to address the annual opening session of the UN Human Rights Council. Steve McCabe MP, chair of Labour Friends of Israel, pledges his party’s full and proper application of the international body’s resolution to protect human rights.
“This decision – surreal at any time – is particularly grotesque at a moment when the regime in Tehran is continuing to brutally suppress protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini last September.
That Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was provided with a platform to slur the protesters – he said the demonstrations for women’s rights and democracy had “turned violent following malign interference by some terrorist elements” – is insulting to the memory of all those Tehran has gunned down, executed and tortured in recent months.
Amir-Abdollahian coupled his slanders about the regime’s violence at home on Monday with lies the previous day about its complicity in Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine; denying that Iran is supplying Russia with the drones it uses to terrorise innocent Ukrainian civilians.
Amir-Abdollahian is no reformer or moderate. With his close links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he was a natural pick for Ebrahim Raisi when the “Butcher of Tehran” won the presidency following the sham elections of June 2021.
Source: IMFAT