Iran Rights Envoy Assails U.N. Censure
NEW YORK—Iran's top human-rights official gave a robust defense of his country's right to engage in the stoning of criminals and imprison lawyers viewed as threatening the stability of the Islamic Republic, as a United Nations committee censured Tehran for what it said was an accelerating crackdown on its opponents. Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a senior envoy and chief of Iran's Human Rights Council, said in an interview that the U.N.'s actions were engineered by the U.S. and its allies as part of a campaign to confront Tehran and undercut its drive to develop nuclear technologies. "We think this line of action is neither fair, nor contributes to the promotion of human rights," Mr. Larijani said at Iran's U.N. mission in New York before the vote by the committee, which comprises all U.N. members.
In Tehran's Defense-
'Iran has a legal system that's quite open.…This U.N. human-rights resolution is stemming from American hostility toward Iran.'//'If they think this kind of sanctions will shrink Iran, to weaken Iran, this is absolutely wrong.…I think it doesn't serve the Americans. This is the reason why the Americans are becoming a bit hysterical about it.'//'Stoning means you should do a number of acts, by throwing the stone in a limited number, in a special way.…In the eyes of some people, stoning is a lesser punishment than execution because there is a chance you should survive.'
—Mohammad-Javad Larijani
Source: WSJ
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