The Islamic Republic of Iran, the terror-fomenting mullahcracy that has accused Canada, of all countries, of human-rights violations.
Just before hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited New York this week, Iran published a 70-page booklet, "Report on Human Rights Situation in Canada." This document of supreme irony accuses the Canadian government of "den[ying] its people food, clean water and the right to work." Canada is accused of unlawful arrests, beatings and, most incredibly, given the source, violating the rights of women.,
Pigs will fly when Iran becomes the world's women-right's watchdog, and so it is very clear what's going on here. Iran believes that human-rights reports are simply tools of geopolitical vengeance, and it thinks it is entitled to some action. Some context: Last year, Canada condemned Iran for its human-rights violations.
One lesson here is this regime does not understand the point of human-rights reports. Iran's history of horrific human-rights violations, among the worst on the planet, entails countless dissidents and religious leaders arrested and tortured; all forms of media subjected to government censorship; and women treated as if they aren't human beings. |
