GENEVA ( WNAM MONITORING): The UN Human Rights Council will hold an urgent special session this week on “the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” a spokesman said Tuesday.
It follows a request from Britain, Germany, Iceland, Moldova, and North Macedonia and will take place on Friday, council spokesman Pascal Sim told reporters in Geneva.
In a letter addressed to the council’s president, the five countries highlighted “credible reports of alarming violence, crackdowns on protesters, and violations of international human rights law across the country.”
The request had received backing from more than one-third of the council’s 47 members needed for a special session to go ahead.
The UN Security Council in New York met last week to discuss Iran, which is reeling from anti-government protests.
Any attack on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would trigger a declaration of holy war, the national security parliamentary commission said on Tuesday.
“Any attack on the Supreme Leader means a declaration of war with the entire Islamic world and must await the issuance of a Jihad decree by Islamic scholars and the response of Islam’s soldiers in all parts of the world,” the parliamentary commission was quoted as saying by Iranian Students News Agency .
