Iran (Again) Accuses Canada of Human Rights Abuses.....

Coming from the same country that just last week sentenced a man to be blinded with acid.....

TEHRAN— Iran accused Canada on Monday of violating the rights of its indigenous people, after Ottawa proposed a UN resolution condemning human rights violations in the Islamic Republic.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi also chided Western countries for talking about human rights at the same time as they were selling weapons to conflict zones.

“Their biggest revenue, sometimes, comes from the export of arms,” Mr. Qashqavi told a news conference, in comments translated by Iran's English-language Press TV television station.

“War is the most blatant violation of human rights and talk about other human rights violations is more of a joke,” he said.

Western nations claimed a success last month when a UN General Assembly resolution on human rights in Iran passed through a key committee more easily than in the past.

The nonbinding resolution, put forward by Canada and sponsored mainly by Western countries, expresses “deep concern at serious human rights violations” in Iran.

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[Poopyhead]

Iran should be an expert on human rights abuses-they've committed plenty in the last 30 years.