Source: iowntheworld.com --- Monday, July 15, 2013
JewsNews Ambassador to UN slams requests by Iran, Syria to join UN Human Rights Commission By: Gil Ronen and Ari Soffer Israel?s U.N. Ambassador, Ron Prosor, attacked on Thursday the requests by Syria and Iran to join the UN?s Human Rights Commission (UNHRC). ?A new Guinness world?s record at the UN? Putting Syria and Iran in the UNHRC is like appointing mob bosses to head the witness protection plan,? Prosor said in a statement. The move comes as the Syrian regime of Bashar el-Assad continues a bloody campaign to crush a two-year rebellion, which has seen massive human rights violations and accusations of war crimes on both sides, including the use of chemical weapons and the indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas by regime forces. Iran?s candidacy comes only days after Arutz Sheva revealed that the Islamic Republichad executed 61 people in less than a month, following the election of Hassan Rouhani as the country?s new president on June 14. Human rights activists now claim that number has risen to more than 70. The candidacies put forth by the two countries surprised even some of the more cynical officials in the UN. Besides Syria, where the death toll in the civil war is approaching 100,000, and Iran, which denies the Holocaust and vows to erase Israel from the map, other candidacies announced Wednesday were those of China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Jordan and the Maldives. The estimates in the UN are that Syria and Iran wi ...
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