According to Press TV, Mohammad Zare’ian made the remarks while addressing a virtual meeting of the committee on Thursday evening, which was held on the subject of a report by the UN Human Rights Council.
Expressing concern about the hateful remarks recently made by politicians in the West, Zare’ian said the Islamic Republic fully believes in freedom of speech but not the sort that incites hatred against others.
“Muslims, migrant communities and Africans have been the target of dangerous rhetoric, which is a flagrant abuse of freedom of expression,” the Iranian official said. “We also express our serious concern about the increase in insults to Muslim sanctities in Western countries.”
Over the past two months, French President Emmanuel Macron has attacked the faith of nearly two billion Muslims worldwide on several occasions.
In September, Macron defended the “right to blaspheme” in France after French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo republished sacrilegious cartoons attributed to Almighty’s Last and Greatest Messenger to mankind, Prophet Muhammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny). On October 2, he claimed in a speech that Islam was “in crisis globally” and announced his plan “to reform Islam” to bring the faith more in line with French values.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Zare’ian censured as “illegal and inhumane” the imposition of unilateral sanctions against countries, and said the restrictive measures “openly target the daily lives of ordinary citizens without discrimination and are designed to undermine any achievement of social development.”
The Iranian diplomat said the implementation of unilateral and coercive measures continues to fundamentally violate the human rights of all countries, and that “Such sanctions, due to their extraterritorial nature and their illegal application outside national borders, also undermine human rights across the world.”
Source : parstoday.com
