UN rights rapporteur, US agent: Iran MP

A total of six Iranian scientists related to the country’s nuclear energy program have been killed by the Israeli agents since January 2010. In the latest instance, Mostafa Ahmadi Moqaddam, deputy head of Natanz nuclear facility, was killed when a motorist stuck a bomb to his car in Tehran on January 11.

“From the first day that Mr. Ahmed Shaheed was appointed as the UN [human rights] rapporteur, we suspected he was a US agent; but after he published a few reports [on the rights situation in Iran], we became certain he had been sent on mission by the Americans,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Saturday.

The lawmaker, who heads the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, added that Shaheed contacted counterrevolutionary elements instead of Iranian officials for information to prepare his report, stressing that the Americans guided him in compiling his report.

Boroujerdi said Iran believes Shaheed’s reports lack legal value, adding, “The content of Ahmed Shaheed’s reports are the repetition of allegations made by counterrevolutionary elements and therefore, lacks credibility.”

Pointing to recent remarks by US Attorney General Eric Holder who defended the US government assassinating overseas American citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activities against the United States, Boroujerdi said US officials who openly defend the assassination of American citizens, accuse Iran of supporting terrorism.

On June 17, 2011, the UN Human Rights Council, under the pressure from the United States and its allies, named former Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed as its human rights investigator on Iran.

Tehran says the appointment of a UN Special Rapporteur on Iran’s human rights is a selective, politically-motivated and unacceptable move.

Iran also blames Western governments, the US administration in particular, for violating international law, disregard for the basic rights of their citizens and support for the violation of human rights across the globe.

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