The resolution was adopted on Tuesday, December 18, with 80 votes in favor, 27 against, and 68 abstentions by the member states of the United Nations General Assembly.
Reacting to a resolution approved in the UNGA against the human rights status in Islamic Republic of Iran, the Spokesman of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Canadian proposal, supported by some Western countries repeated baseless claims based on false information, and therefore it lacks legal validity and is fundamentally rejected.
Esmail Baghaee noted: "Such unfounded movements by certain actors, who have a long history of gross violations of human rights, including through military and political support for occupation and genocide in Palestine, do not contribute to the promotion of human rights and respect for them globally but merely diminish the noble concept of human rights and reduce it to a tool of political pressure against nations."
The majority of the member states of the United Nations have expressed their dissatisfaction through negative, abstaining, or absent votes, with the abuse of the UN General Assembly and the instrumental use of human rights.
Baghaee pointed out that the initiators of the anti-Iranian resolution, including the Zionist regime, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, are among the major violators of human rights.
He considered such a resolution a source of shame and urged Canadian officials, who initiate such actions against Iran every year and called on them to focus on correcting their own actions both domestically and internationally instead of accusing others and to stop the systematic policy of colonial extermination of indigenous populations and be accountable for their complicity in the genocide and war crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people
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