Iran’s senior human rights official blasts UN special rapporteur's remarks

Iran’s senior human rights official blasted the recent remarks by UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Asma Jahangir on the situation of certain prisoners in Iran.

Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani protested at the recent remarks by Jahangir, IRNA reported.

“On a recent press release by your office which included a statement by Ms. Asma Jahangir, I regret to say that all of it has been incorrect, unjustifiable and disappointing,” Larijani said in a letter to UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein.

He noted that the professional work required Jahangir to inform the Iranian government of the allegations before releasing them, and continued, “I asked my colleagues at the Human Rights Headquarters to prepare a clear and unambiguous response to the allegations raised by Ms. Asma Jahangir which will be annexed to the letter.”

Previously, Tehran's Public and Revolution Courts Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced that 70 spies are currently jailed in Iran on charges of betrayal and spying in favor of the foreign states.

“The arrested spies have passed sensitive information on Iran in the nuclear, military, political, social and cultural fields to the enemies,” Dolatabadi said.

The Tehran public prosecutor said that the enemy is seeking to create unrest in Iran by hatching plots to carry out bomb attacks across the country.