\n Tehran on Saturday strongly condemned a UN report on the Islamic republic's response to mass protests in 2022, denouncing Western countries' \"Iranophobia\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The report was built on \"baseless claims\" and \"false and biased information, without a legal basis\", foreign affairs ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n
\n International experts said the repression of mostly peaceful protests beginning in September 2022 and \"institutionalised discrimination\" towards women and girls have led to \"crimes against humanity\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The UN Human Rights Council mandated the experts' investigation -- in which Iranian authorities refused to take part -- following massive protests which shook the Islamic republic after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini.\n<\/p>\n
\n A 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, Amini had been arrested by the morality police in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's strict dress code for women.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Not only did the expert committee not establish the truth, but it also deliberately distorted the facts,\" Kanani said.\n<\/p>\n
\n The report, he said, \"was prepared by the Zionist regime (Israel), the United States, and some Western countries\", who were \"continuing a project of Iranophobia and defamation of Iran\".\n<\/p>\n
\n These countries were \"angry at the failure of their interventions during the riots\", Kanani said, referring to the protests.\n<\/p>\n
\n Iranian authorities say the \"riots\" were fomented by the \"enemies\" of the Islamic republic, especially the United States.\n<\/p>\n
\n The spokesman said a special committee charged by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi with investigating the protests had \"recently sent its final report to the president\", without giving details on its findings.\n<\/p>\n
\n The UN experts said \"no less than 551\" protesters were killed by security forces, who \"used unnecessary and disproportionate force\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tehran on Saturday strongly condemned a UN report on the Islamic republic's response to mass protests in 2022, denouncing Western countries' \"Iranophobia\". The report was built on \"baseless claims\" and \"false and biased information, without a legal basis\", foreign affairs ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement. International experts said the repression of mostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-129412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n