Iran dismisses UN rights report as "invalid"

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said Wednesday that the recent report by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on human rights situation in Iran is "invalid," Tehran Times daily reported.

Iran believes that the report has some shortcomings and lack credibility, Qasemi was quoted as saying.

"The most serious shortcoming of the report is that the text is based on an unfair and political resolution which has been prepared against Iran to exert pressure on the country and achieve certain political objectives and this can never have reliability," he said.

The Iranian spokesman also stressed that the report has been prepared based on unreliable sources and it is "one-sided and based on wrong judgment" on the situation of human rights in Iran.

Ban released a report this week claiming that he remains "deeply troubled" by accounts "of executions, floggings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, unfair trials, denial of access to medical care and possible torture and ill-treatment" in Iran. Endit