Iranian President Raps West’s Double-Standard Stance on Human Rights

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lambasted the West’s double-standard policies and stances on human rights issues, and said the arrogant powers use human rights as an instrument to achieve their ominous goals against other countries.

The president said the slogans and goals of the arrogant powers and the so-called human rights advocates are different in theory and practice.

“Americans under the false slogans of defending freedom try to dominate Syria, Lebanon, Iran and all countries and we should be vigilant and strong against their plots,” said Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Syrian President Special Envoy Faisal Maqdad on Tuesday.

Iran has always lashed out at the western countries for using human rights issues as a tool and pretext for pressurizing independent states to conceal their own crimes and wrong deeds.

Ahmadinejad in November 2010 lambasted continued violation of human rights by certain European countries, and asked them to listen to the demands of their people.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry in 2010 issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to join the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.

It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for the human rights in the world, has despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite President Barack Obama’s promise, still not shut down the horrendous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.