UN human rights chief invited to Iran

A spokesman to the Human Rights body said that Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, offered the invitation in a meeting with Navi Pillay in Geneva on Friday.

"He orally invited her to visit, on Friday," Rupert Colville said on Monday.

"Dr Larijani invited the High Commissioner to visit Iran, which she said would not be possible before 2011," said Colville.

He noted that Pillay asked the Iranian officials to allow UN's human rights experts into the country in the near future.

Iran insists that it has been fully complying with its international commitments to protecting human rights.

Addressing a UN meeting in Geneva on Monday, Larijani reiterated that the state of human rights has consistently been used as a political pretext to apply pressure against Iran.

"With the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the situation of human rights has consistently been used as a political tool to apply pressure against us and to advance certain ulterior political motives by certain Western countries," Larijani said.

Larijani has also emphasized that the Iranian society is a successful model of co-existence.

/Press TV/