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5 May, 9 tweets, 5 min read
Iranian beauty queen in Norway hails election of regime to @UN_Women, says “women's social status in Iran has developed significantly.“

She got asylum in Norway—after being rejected 3 times—on grounds she risked being subjected to forced marriage in Iran.
nettavisen.no/nyheter/bahare…
Her name is Bahareh Letnes. (Original name: Bahareh Heidari Nasserad.) An overt supporter of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and the regime, she sparked a scandal when she accompanied Norway's Minister of Fisheries on a secret trip to Iran. He had to quit.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
Norwegian intelligence investigated ties Bahareh Letnes' ties to the Iranian regime. A dental secretary, she suddenly founded a trading company for "export of fish plus import of natural gas from Iran." Then she accompanied the Fisheries Minister to Iran.
newsinenglish.no/2018/08/10/pst…
The former minister, Per Sandberg, shared front-row seats at an Iranian embassy event with a Norwegian-Iranian man charged in Denmark with the attempted assassination of a Danish-Iranian dissident. newsinenglish.no/2018/11/08/san…

Video: nrk.no/norge/her-feir…
When Norway MP @emiliemehl spoke out against Iran's election to @UN_Women, Bahareh Letnes said "she lacks expertise."

@bai_mina: "I hope Letnes doesn't scare Norwegian politicians from getting involved in Iran issues. Women in Iran need their support."
nettavisen.no/norsk-debatt/b…
Naturally, Bahareh Letnes blames Iranian women's inequality on....the US & Israel.

"Changes are slow in Iran due to US-led sanctions, a result of US and Israeli claims of Iranian funding of terrorist organizations and attempts to develop nuclear weapons."
nettavisen.no/nyheter/bahare…
For more on Iran's election to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women:
▶️ Dissidents slam Western “appeasement“ of Iran unwatch.org/activists-reje…
▶️ At least 4 EU & Western group democracies voted for Iran: unwatch.org/at-least-4-eu-…
▶️ Election report: unwatch.org/un-elects-iran…
▶️ Firestorm in US, Canada, UK, Norway, Netherlands as lawmakers urge their democracies to condemn Iran's election to UN women's rights commission—and to reveal how they voted. Questions also asked by MPs & media in Germany, France, Switzerland.
unwatch.org/firestorm-afte…
Astonishingly, the United States refuses to simply and directly condemn Iran's election to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.

Despite being asked repeatedly by journalists from the Associated Press and Voice of America, the US refused to condemn.

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2 May
FINALLY: European Parliament calls out @UNRWA for using textbooks "which contain hate speech and incitement to violence." Kudos to MEP @DavidLega for helping to draft the text. europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…

As usual, UNRWA is in full denial: unrwa.org/newsroom/offic… ImageImage
“The European Parliament is concerned about the hate speech and violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks and used in schools by UNRWA; is concerned about the effectiveness of UNRWA's mechanisms of adherence to UN values in educational materials used and taught by UNRWA...
“staff in its schools, which contain hate speech and incitement to violence; insists that UNRWA acts in full transparency and publishes in an open-source platform all its educational materials for teachers and students, as well as its reviews of host country textbooks...“
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2 May
UNHRC's Palestine monitor Michael Lynk calls on French insurance company AXA to boycott Israel's Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Bank Mizrahi & Israel Discount Bank.

No UNHRC official has ever called to boycott any Chinese company. Or from any other country.
bdsmovement.net/news/press-rel…
Michael Lynk is not who he claims to be.

He says his task is "to assess the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory."

In fact, his mandate is "to investigate Israel's violations"—no one else.

He claims to be objective.

In fact...
unwatch.org/lynk/
In the application for his current UN post, Michael Lynk was asked to list relevant relationships.

Curiously, he failed to disclose his leadership role in 3 separate pro-Palestinian lobby groups.

unwatch.org/demanding-susp…
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2 May
Arabs in Israel have more freedom than anywhere in the Arab world, yet @hrw is obsessed only with Israel.

Kudos to @vauseCNN for challenging @goldsteinricky with facts from @GeraldNGOM & South Africa's Judge Goldstone who said the apartheid slur is FALSE.
vimeo.com/542844741
Judge Goldstone: “While 'apartheid' can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations.“ nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opi…
Even Judge Goldstone, a harsh critic of Israel, former chair of a UN inquiry against Israel—and a former board member of Human Rights Watch itself—wrote: "In Israel, there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute:"
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1 May
.@SecBlinken I am shocked at the US change in position. In 2010 the US mobilized to find a candidate that defeated Iran @UN_Women. In 2014 the US condemned Iran's win @UN_CSW as "an outrage." Now, you didn't even try to defeat Iran—and astonishingly you refuse to condemn its win.
In its statement below to VOA & at the press briefing, the Biden Administration pointedly refused to give a simple and direct condemnation of Iran's election to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Instead, it's all embarrassingly vague and indirect.
voanews.com/middle-east/vo…
Read the official US statement:

"The unopposed candidacies of countries that engage in torture, abuse, and violations of human rights and due process was a troubling feature of this election. That is why the United States called for the vote on the Commission on the Status..."
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27 Apr
“Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields.“
—Robert Bernstein, founder of HRW
nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opi…
"These groups are supported by the government of Iran, which has openly declared its intention not just to destroy Israel but to murder Jews everywhere. This incitement to genocide is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."
"Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields. They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again."
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27 Apr
.@Valeurs: « Élire la République islamique d’Iran pour protéger les droits des femmes, c’est comme faire d’un pyromane le chef des pompiers de la ville », a ainsi déclaré Hillel Neuer, directeur exécutif d’UN Watch.

valeursactuelles.com/monde/lonu-eli…
"Malgré un vote secret, l’ONG a déterminé qu’au moins quatre des 15 démocraties de l’UE et du groupe occidental membre du Conseil économique et social des Nations unies (ECOSOC) ont voté pour l’Iran. Quatre votants figurent donc parmi cette liste de pays : "
l’Australie, l’Autriche, la Finlande, la France, la Lettonie, l’Allemagne, le Luxembourg, les Pays-Bas, la Norvège, la Suisse, le Royaume-Uni... « C’est un jour noir pour les droits des femmes, et pour tous les droits de l’Homme », s’attriste Hillel Neuer.
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