Iranian Basij Presents Its Report On Human Rights In The U.S.

MEMRI ^ | Feburary 7, 2014 | Special Dispatch

[yoe]

On January 27, 2014, the Iranian paramilitary Basij presented its 2013 report on human rights in the U.S., which was published in Farsi, Arabic, and English.[1] The Basij report details human rights violations by the U.S administration, including execution, torture in prisons, and racial discrimination in the American justice system.

The report includes few statistics and sources, relying largely on the websites of organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International that cannot be accessed in Iran; the Iranian regime has in the past referred to these organizations, which have criticized the Basij itself, as "Zionist." According to the Rooz website, HRW criticized the Basij's role in suppressing the 2009 presidential election protests in Iran.[2] The United Nations Human Rights Council, also mentioned in the Basij report, once called the Basij an "oppression machine" and dispatched a special envoy, Ahmed Shahid, to Iran to investigate human rights violations there, but the Iranian regime continues to prevent him from even entering the country.

The Basij report was presented at a ceremony at Tehran University, at which regime officials, among them Basij commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Deputy Majlis speaker Mohammad Hassan Abu Torabi, and Iranian Judiciary Human Rights Council head Mohammad-Javad Larijani, made anti-U.S. statements. Larijani even called UN envoy Shahid an "evil idiot."

[yoe]

This reporting is just as mendacious as that coming out of the White House. We can't count on this administration to refute this accusation, the Oval Office is seemingly in lock step with the report.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Did they say anything about the use of the IRS for political ends?

[xone]

This from the outfit that roped children together in an attempt to swamp Iraqi defenses during their war.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[nuconvert]

Thanks for the laugh

[Texas Fossil]

I watched the Iranian people try to rebel against the Mullahs stealing their election. Saw the actual videos, not the dribble from our idiot talking heads in the US.

The Basij drove around on motor cycles and beat head with billy clubs forcing the people into subjection. (a few of them got the A$$s whipped)

And we should listen to nonsense about human rights from those vermin.

They can go to H. Well, they probably will.