Meeting of Islamic Republic Officials on Human Rights

Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the prosecutor, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister, and Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of the Human Rights Headquarters of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic, attempted to justify the performance and record of the Islamic Republic and the cases of human rights violations in Iran during a meeting that reported on the fifth specialized conference of the Tehran provincial prosecutor's office on Saturday. These are extensive, ongoing, and blatant issues that have been continuously reported by two UN human rights bodies: the 'UN Human Rights Council' and the 'UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.' According to Iranian news agencies, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated in this meeting that the richest sources in the field of human rights are found in Islam. On the other hand, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, attributed the regime's attention to human rights to the principles and requirements of the Islamic Republic's constitution. Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and head of the Human Rights Defenders Center, described her reaction to the statements of the Islamic Republic officials in the meeting as a smirk at such remarks. Shirin Ebadi, a former judge in Iran whose judicial license was revoked after the 1979 revolution, recounts the reactions of the Islamic Republic officials and their attempts to respond as stemming from the numerous deficiencies in the human rights situation in Iran, holding the heads of all three branches of the Islamic Republic responsible for the human rights situation in Iran. In the meeting on Saturday, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the revolutionary prosecutor in Tehran, stated that some judicial cases have foreign elements or, like the case of Babak Zanjani, the assets in question are located abroad, necessitating diplomatic cooperation and support from the Foreign Ministry. This judicial official of the Islamic Republic also mentioned that sometimes individuals in the country have judicial cases, and foreign governments have supportive and specific positions regarding them, citing the case of Ahmadreza Jalali, a university professor, doctor, and Iranian researcher who is a Swedish citizen, as the latest example, describing the number of such cases in the Islamic Republic's judiciary as significant. The revolutionary prosecutor in Tehran, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, also described the reports of special rapporteurs against the Islamic Republic as biased. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif considered human rights important from both domestic and international perspectives, both of which, according to him, are relevant in light of the concept of power change in the world. In the meeting on Saturday, Ali Shamkhani identified the most significant threat today as the decline in public trust in the effectiveness of the regime in various aspects, emphasizing that while they should not allow judicial issues to become a national security issue, they must strive to become the leaders of what he describes as Islamic human rights in the world. According to reports from UN human rights organizations, the Islamic Republic has the highest execution rate after the People's Republic of China on earth, and it is also referred to as one of the major prisons for journalists.