Be patient with the Iranian officials, everyone... It's apparently very hard for them to notice the rather enormous log sticking out of their own eye on violating people's God-given rights.
The Iranian government announced sanctions last week against the U.S. for systemic racism against people of color.
"Human rights experts confirmed that police brutality in the US against people of color especially, African-Americans, should be considered systemic racism," Secretary-General of Iran's Humans Rights Office Kazem Gharababadi said.
Gharababadi specifically mentioned the George Floyd case and the "big number of women in jails," according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.
I guess since we're just talking about random incidents that have happened in countries involving police without giving any context, let's get a quick check on Iran's recent record on "police brutality."
"On October 24, a video circulating on social media showed two police officers beating a man on the street," according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran in a report titled 'A Glance at Iran's Human Rights Violations in 2020.'
"The voice on the video says twice that the police shot the man before beating him. The victim was identified as Mohsen Min Bashi."
Wow, Iran. I can't believe your police would be so brutal against a person of color. Shameful!
There's thousands of examples out there of absolutely horrific human rights abuses going back over 4 decades by the regime, which carefully controls all aspects of its subjects' lives.
What about the infamous Evin Prison, where dissidents go to be brutally tortured until they die? You know, the one that's regularly featured in spy movies because it has such a nasty reputation?
This isn't the first (and won't be the last) time Iran issues a trollish statement of fake self-righteousness like this against the U.S.
"Iranian state media outlets and officials frequently comment on police and racial issues in the United States, particularly Floyd's murder and the Black Lives Matter movement," Al-Monitor reports.
"In October, the semi-official Press TV reported on the defacement of a Floyd statue in New York City. In September, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian mentioned Floyd's murder in a speech about racial discrimination around the world."
Back in June, Iran's former Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian tweeted that "US cities are scenes of brutality against protesters & press, as military crackdown is threatened."
Nice to see that the charades of groups like BLM are benefiting some of the world's most oppressive dictators.
There's nothing quite like being lectured about systemic injustice from the likes of Iran.
I guess we should be waiting to hear from the CCP and DPRK about the wickedness of the U.S. too.
