Thread by @HillelNeuer

1/ Today, in one of its last acts before suspending due to the coronavirus, @UN_HRC adopted a report with 85% PRAISE for the human rights record of #Iran.

🇸🇾SYRIA: “We commend Iran's active efforts to increase healthcare services by building medical care in rural & urban areas.”

2/ 🇨🇳 CHINA "commends Iran's efforts to eradicate poverty, enhance social security, protect the rights of vulnerable groups & hopes Iran will continue to drive economic & social development to provide a solid basis for the enjoyment of all human rights.” unwatch.org/iran-praised-i…

3/ 🇷🇺 RUSSIA: “We highly rate #Iran’s cooperation with human rights treaty bodies and openness for dialogue as part of the UPR (Universal Periodic Review).”

4/ 🇻🇪 VENEZUELA: “We welcome the answers provided by the government (of #Iran) during the review in which it confirmed the country’s steadfast commitment to protecting human rights.”

Full report: unwatch.org/iran-praised-i…

4/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UNHRC: “While Iran is struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic and to protect not only our own citizens but also the whole humanity against this scourge, #Iran’s health capacity is viciously targeted by the United States with unilateral sanctions.”

5/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UNHRC: “The pathological addiction to radical unilateralism of all sorts, including unilateral coercive measures [sanctions], plus the unbridled resort to military force, have turned human rights into a main casualty of today’s international relations.”

6/ / CHINA: "We commend Iran's efforts to eradicate poverty, enhance social security, protect the rights of vulnerable groups & hopes Iran will continue to drive economic & social development to provide a solid basis for the enjoyment of all human rights.” unwatch.org/iran-praised-i…

7/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells U.N. Human Rights Council: “Torture and ill-treatment in Iran are forbidden under the Constitution and Islamic teachings and values. It is also forbidden based on national criminal law and international commitments.”

(For a second opinion, ask @AlinejadMasih)

8/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UN Human Rights Council: “After the Revolution, women have been pioneers. The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to continue its efforts to strengthen women’s rights in law and in practice.”

(For a second opinion, ask @shaparakshjr)

unwatch.org/iran-praised-i…

9/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UN Human Rights Council: “For the last 40 years, Iran has had tremendous achievements in boosting democratic institutions, civil and political rights, education, poverty eradication, women and children’s rights, health & sanitation.”

10/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UN Human Rights Council: “Civil rights including freedom of expression, access to information, freedom of assembly, freedom of association as well as political and social participation, have provided a good atmosphere for journalists, reporters, media and NGOs.”

11/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UN Human Rights Council: “All citizens are equally protected by the law. The rights of religious minorities and [people] of any social and political orientation are enshrined in the charter as citizen’s rights and the government is required to observe it.” #lies

12/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UN Human Rights Council: “Under the U.S. economic sanctions, the right to health is the prime casualty of those sanctions. The whole population’s basic human rights are being targeted by a systematic and brutal manner by the United States’ sanctions.”

13/ 🇮🇷 IRAN tells UN Human Rights Council: “For years, a number of developing countries—#Iran being one of them—are scapegoated for human rights violations while, in fact, human rights are only being abusively invoked as a tool to stigmatize and antagonize targeted nations.”

14/ 🇮🇷 IRAN to UN Human Rights Council: “The current international climate of greed, egotism, unilateralism, xenophobia and self-centered whims is obsessively hostile to nurturing genuine human solidarity to protect, let alone promote, the common good.” unwatch.org/iran-praised-i…