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 is ITS opponents.
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a senior envoy and chief of Iran's Human Rights Council, said in an interview That the UN'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 Neither is fair, nor contributes to the promotion of human rights," Mr. Larijani said at Iran's UN mission in New York before the vote by the Committee, Which comprises all UN Members. "This resolution is stemming from the American Hostility Towards Iran. ... It's a politicization of human rights."
Mr. Larijani, a US-Trained mathematician, Comes from Iran's Most Powerful Political Family and is a key member of Tehran's foreign policy establishment. His brother, Ali, is the president of the Iranian parliament, and his second brother, Sadegh, heads the Iranian judiciary.
Mr. Larijani said Tehran Remains Willing Thurs hold new talks next month with the international community on the nuclear issue and is willing Thurs cooperate with the U.S. in stabilizing Afghanistan. But they Stressed That His Government Would not retreat from the ITS program Thurs Produce Nuclear Fuel, a key demand of the UN Security Council.
"We are the only country in the Middle East ... that has the capability Thurs Produce the fuel," Mr. Larijani said. "Nobody Should Ask U.S. TO dump this capability."
The UN's censuring of Iran has Become an annual rite, But Western Officials said it had occurred Particular resonance this year due to the scale of Tehran's Crackdown since the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last year.
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