MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The latest UN secretary-general's report on Iran, outlining cases of human rights abuse, was based on faulty principles which rendered it invalid, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Wednesday.
"Such reports have fundamental problems principally and in nature and therefore, are invalid in the Islamic Republic of Iran's view," Qassemi said, as quoted by the Iranian FARS news agency.
8 August 2016, 15:49 GMT
According to the ministry's spokesman, the report was biased against Iran, based on unverified sources and written to serve certain countries' interests.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's 19-page report released earlier in October said that executions, corporal punishment, unfair trials and possible mistreatment of detainees remained a concern in Iran.
