Judiciary Chief: US Using Human Rights to Pressure Countries, Hatch Plots

TEHRAN (Defapress)- "Iran's enemies calling themselves as advocates of human rights use the same issue as a pretext to force other countries accept their unlawful demands," Amoli Larijani said in a televised interview on Saturday night.

Iran's judiciary chief, meantime, reiterated that the US is committing the biggest crimes inside and outside the region, and said, "The crises in Yemen, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan are manifestations of human rights violations by the US and its regional allies."

Amoli Larijani expressed astonishment over US accusing Iran of violating human rights.

In relevant remarks on Wednesday, Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani lashed out at the West for its double-standard approach towards human rights issues in Iran and certain other regional and western states.

"Constructive talks on human rights issues at international level face three major obstacles. The first one is double-standards. The western states treat one group with one standard and another group with a different set of criteria," Larijani told reporters in Tehran.

He explained that the US, France, Britain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have hired a number of mercenaries to commit inhumane crimes in certain regional states but they keep mum about these human rights violations, and when a terrorist is executed in Iran, they launch propaganda against the country, and "this is a clear instance of the West's double-standard behavior".

Larijani added that another problem is that resolutions against Israel, Saudi Arabia, the US as the worst violator of human rights, Britain and France are rarely approved by the international bodies, but lots of resolutions have been approved against Iran which is the most successful country in the fight against terrorism.

"The third problem is linking terrorism to human rights as is done by the so-called advocates of human rights today to cover up terrorist actions," he said.

In relevant remarks last year, Larijani underlined that his country is suspicious of the western countries' claims about supporting human rights after witnessing their silence on crimes committed by Saudi Arabia against the war-hit Yemeni people.

Larijani made the remarks in a meeting with a European parliamentary delegation in Tehran.

He strongly blasted Saudi Arabia's crimes in Yemen and the West's silence, and said, "Saudi Arabia has killed thousands of innocent women and children in Yemen but it is still supported by the western states and the US."

"Given this double-standard policy, we become suspicious of the westerners' real intention when they speak about human rights in Iran and criticize it and we analyze them within the framework of a collection of political measures," Larijani said.

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