UN Human Rights Council resolution on Iran political

TABNAK, Jan. 24 - The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Office in Geneva has issued a statement calling the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Iran political and unacceptable.

News ID: 7124

Date: 24 January 2026 - 11:18

The statement says that the Islamic Republic of Iran considers the special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council and its alleged outcome to be a clearly political act and completely devoid of any real concern for human rights, and rejects it.

It added that the initiators of this measure have never been sincerely concerned about the rights of the Iranian people, otherwise they would not have imposed inhumane sanctions that seriously violate fundamental rights and ignored the Israeli regime’s aggressive war, which has been referred to as a “dirty job” and has killed and injured more than 5,000 Iranians.

The statement said that Iran has strong, independent, and effective national accountability mechanisms and therefore rejects any pretext for politicized external intervention.

It pointed out that based on President Pezeshkian’s orders, a comprehensive investigation is underway to identify the roots of recent incidents.

“The cases of detainees will be handled with justice, fairness and compassion. The rights of Iranian citizens are guaranteed only through independent legal processes based on national sovereignty. At the end of its special session on Friday, the UN Human Rights Council, in a political, hasty and ill-considered move, adopted a resolution on Iran proposed by Iceland, Germany, North Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova and the United Kingdom,” it concluded.