The Mullahs of Medicine Hat
Or Ayatoll-eh?
Iran takes a good look in the one-way mirror, and doesn’t like what it sees:
In a bid to discredit Canada at the United Nations, Iran is equipping world diplomats with a 70-page booklet on Canada’s alleged human rights violations.
Written by Iran “in the name of God,” the document asserts that the Canadian government denies its people food, clean water and the right to work.
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“Canada’s position as a self-declared standard-bearer on human rights has been demoted to a blind-folded-and-bullied follower of the new school of unilateralism and the axis of derailment of international human rights law.”
Maybe it loses something in the translation.
Meanwhile, back on the home planet:
The Iranian leader speaks at the UN about “human dignity and justice.” Yet the UN itself — GA Resolution 61/176 — found that Iran treats its own people with neither dignity nor justice. It called on Iran:
to end its use of torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment;
to end its execution of minors, and its violence and discrimination against women;
to end its discrimination against minorities, including Arabs, Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds, Christians, Jews, Sufis, Sunni Muslims, and the Baha’i.
“Hizballah is active and hates Bahai’is. “
With pictures to prove it.
Look, we’ve got plenty more…
Following complaints by the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an Iranian court this weekend ordered the closure of the offices of the Baztab website, and also of the site itself.
…but you get the point.