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Iran slams Berlin over "human rights" probe into Iran, calls hypocrisy

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 28 Nov 2022 14:44
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Kanaani showed up with a chemical mask in a strong message: Germany was Saddam Hussein's main chemical weapons supplier in the war against Iran.

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    Iran slams Berlin over "human rights" probe into Iran, calls hypocrisy

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has asserted his rejection of cooperating with a human rights body led by Germany to "investigate human rights abuses in the riots" in Iran. 

Read more: German embassy played a pivotal role in the riots: Fars agency

At a press briefing in Tehran on Monday, Kanaani showed up with a chemical mask, which he set in front of him on the podium as he spoke, which is interpreted as Germany's support for executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's war on Iran from 1980 to 1988. Berlin supplied Baghdad with chemical weapons, which many Iranians are still recovering from today.

He argued that Hussein had no reservations regarding the use of chemical weapons in the war, and Germany was the main supplier of deadly munitions to the Iraqi government, according to Der Spiegel. 

Iran, according to Kanaani, attends to own its own national responsibilities and has already set up a committee comprising experts, lawyers, and official and non-official representatives, and is already conducting investigations. 

He slammed Berlin's weaponization of human rights and its employment for political interests against sovereign states - he emphasized that such instrumental use of human rights will not advance human rights. 

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“The Islamic Republic of Iran will not engage in any cooperation, whatsoever, with the politicized committee established in the name of a fact-finding mission,” Kanaani said.

UNHRC politicized by Germany

On Thursday, the UN Human Rights Council, at the request of Germany and Iceland, attending a meeting to discuss "human rights violations in Iran" during what is today the largest attempt at a color revolution in recent Iranian history. 

The convention concluded with a majority vote to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to probe into the alleged human rights abuses. 

Today, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador to Tehran to protest Germany's repeated interference in Iranian internal affairs following an anti-Iran resolution passed in the UN Human Rights Council.

Earlier this month, the ministry also summoned the German Ambassador over unconstructive and "irresponsible" remarks made by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The ministry then held Germany responsible for the effects of such remarks on the future of bilateral relations between Tehran and Berlin.

The spokesperson of Iran's Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani, also bashed the German chancellor's anti-Iran stances, as well as his recent comments in support of western-instigated demonstrations in Iran, as "meddlesome, inflammatory, and undiplomatic."

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