In a statement released Wednesday evening, Iran’s mission dismissed Canada’s move as “posturing,” pointing to Canada’s own record of systemic racism and the documented history of unmarked graves of Indigenous children.
“Spare us the sanctimonious drivel from Canada—a country with a well-documented history of thousands of Indigenous children dumped in unmarked graves, still steeped in its own entrenched structural racism—now posturing as a global champion of human rights vis-à-vis Iran,” it posted on X.
“Had ‘human rights’ not been hijacked as a geopolitical cudgel by the usual club of serial offenders, Canada would have been the one in the dock, sweating under resolutions, not swaggering upon the stage!” the mission added.
The resolution, introduced annually by Canada, was adopted on Wednesday in New York. As in previous years, however, the number of votes in favor fell short of those opposed or abstaining.
