Iran’s Judiciary slams EU’s anti-Tehran resolution as mere copy of counter-revolutionary narratives

The spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary has strongly condemned the European Parliament’s recent anti-Iran resolution, describing it as a hostile move that merely reproduces claims put forward by counter-revolutionary and hostile opposition groups.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Asghar Jahangir told reporters that the resolution demonstrates that European officials have long distanced themselves from “justice and truth” and pursue policies of arrogant powers.

“Through their hostile action and false claim of human rights violations in Iran, the Europeans have shown that for years they have moved away from truth and reality. The European Parliament, in order not to fall behind this arrogant movement, has taken the same path,” he stressed.

Jahangir’s remarks came two days after the European Parliament warned that Tehran’s alleged “crackdown” on protests could amount to crimes against humanity and urged the United Nations to document and verify reported death tolls.

In the anti-Iran resolution, European lawmakers slammed the alleged violence “particularly targeting civil society actors, protesters, women, minorities, and communities,” and called for the immediate release of detained women.

The resolution also demanded an end to what they called “violence and repression" including "arbitrary detention" and "enforced disappearances."

Iranian officials have already rejected the claims as politically-motivated and based on biased sources.

Foreign-backed armed rioters and terrorists hijacked peaceful, sporadic protests over economic grievances on January 8 and 9. The violence, encouraged openly by the US and the Israeli regime, resulted in extensive damage to public and private property, with widespread destruction of shops, government institutions, public service facilities, and the killing of civilians and security forces.

Iranian authorities have confirmed that American and Israeli spy agencies were directly involved, and provided funding, training, and media support to rioters and armed terrorists acting on the streets.

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The Judiciary spokesman stressed on Tuesday that the anti-Iran resolution lacks any legal standing in domestic or international forums and slammed its authors for ignoring ongoing crimes committed by “arrogant and Zionist groupings” around the world.

“The European Parliament issued a resolution that was in fact written by copying the counter-revolutionaries and hostile opposition groups. In addition to lacking any legal value in domestic and international forums, this text shows that its authors have caused their own historical and human conscience to be consigned into oblivion."

"For if there were an aware and awakened conscience in European society and in the European Parliament, they would not remain silent in the face of the crimes committed around the world by arrogant and Zionist groupings, and at the very least would show some reaction,” Jahangir noted.

He further said that global public opinion has come to understand double standards in Western human rights discourse.

“Today, the global community clearly understands that those arrogant powers who illegally abduct the legitimate president of another country in order to gain access to that country’s oil resources are themselves violators of human rights and examples of crimes against humanity,” the Judiciary spokesman added, in a clear reference to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was abducted by US forces in early January.

Jahangir also stressed that attempts are being made to pose criminals as defenders of human rights, warning that such efforts would not alter the realities on the ground.

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