UN Chief's Report on Human Rights Conditions in Iran "Ridiculous"

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei blasted UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for his recent statements against the human rights situation in Iran.

"That the western countries claim to be advocates of human rights, while they pursue a double-standard approach (in this regard) is rediculous," Mohseni Ejei told reporters on Monday.

Ban Ki-moon's annual report on human rights in Iran expressed concern at executions in the country and what it called the limitations imposed on the press.

In response Iranian officials blasted Ban Ki-moon's report to the UN General Assembly as "unjust" and "biased".

Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani strongly criticized the UN chief for presenting an insulting report on the human rights conditions in Iran.

"One of the West's tactics for inducing the wrong ideas against those countries that are not conforming to its interests is repeating the same lie in different shapes and by different means," Larijani said, addressing a forum of Iran's Human Rights Council in Tehran last week.

Larijani noted that Ban's report is a repetition of the same allegations made by his special rapporteur, counter-revolutionary websites, hypocrites and certain Zionist-Western rulers, and said, "Parts of the report have accused Iran of censorship, violation of rights of journalists and writers, filtering Internet and ..."

They (the western countries) repeat the same lie that Iran violates human rights in different languages and through different mechanisms throughout years, and they want to induce this wrong idea, Larijani said.

Also last week, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior aide to the Supreme Leader, said that the UN chief has prepared the report without any research, investigation and discussion with Iranian officials "and this is an indication of standing against the Iranian government".

Iranian official urged the UN secretary-general to seek to verify the authenticity of allegations about the human rights situation before compiling a report on Iran.