Tehran, YJC. Iran’s head of judiciary has criticized allegations on the violation of women’s rights in the country.
Speaking to a gathering of high-ranking
judiciary officials in Tehran on Wednesday, Sadeq Amoli Larijani rejected the
claims as mere hackneyed falsehood.
"In our country women can assume various
posts and offices based on the law. Their absence from some positions does not
mean that they have suppressed and their rights neglected,” Larijani said.
He required "For example, no woman has
ever become a president in the United States, could we then claim that the
rights of women are suppressed in that country?”
The Judiciary chief also rapped the
recent United Nations General Assembly resolution on situation of human rights
in Iran and stated the move was a "repetition of the previous false claims,
albeit with novel color and taste.”
He also rejected the allegation that the
country has carried out "mass and secret executions,” maintaining the judiciary
system is going to respond to these accusations, if those who have made such
claims would also provide the "names, date and location” of those executed.
The Iranian official also stated that
most of the death penalties carried out in the country are related to drug
traffickers whose names and identities are all the time disclosed to their
families in the least.