Tehran (IP) - Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights reacted to the Pentagon report of sexual harassment in the US army.

Iran PressIran news: The US Defense Department recently uncovered that the American army had registered 135,000 cases of rape and 509 cases of sexual harassment during the past 11 years. 

In a tweet on Sunday, Kazem Gharibadadi wrote: "The flag of defending human rights is being carried by the greatest enemies of human rights." 

65,400 women and 69,600 men in the US army have been raped, and 223,000 women and 286,000 men have been sexually harassed during the past years. 

To whitewash its double standards toward the violations, the West has always attempted to misrepresent the status of human rights in the countries that are against its hegemony. 

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