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requested the removal or modification of them; unfortunately, despite the clearance of the
subject, the appropriate action was not taken by the Rapporteur and only in very few cases
Iran's reactions to the draft were reflected in the Final Report, which was seriously criticized.
Reply to paragraphs 8 and 9
Despite the fact that the appointment of the Special Rapporteur for Iran was unnecessary,
meaningless and harmful, but in line with the United Nations human rights system and in order
to correct the Rapporteur's approach and to set up a report based on reliable information, the
Government of Iran continued its cooperation and interaction with the Special Rapporteur.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has taken a serious decision to cooperate with international
mechanisms, including the Special Procedures mechanism, including in the form of responding
to communications, and it has tried, within a limited time, to provide sufficient information on
requested cases, upon receiving responses from competent authorities. Inserting the statistics 7
responses from 9 communications, in the current report of the Rapporteur, indicates about 77%
of the responses, and Iran's constructive and expanding cooperation with the Rapporteur and
other mandate holders of the Special Procedures.
Reply to Paragraph 10
Despite the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran considers appointment of the Special
Rapporteur unnecessary, meaningless and harmful , but in line with the United Nations human
rights system and in order to correct the Rapporteur's approach and to set up a report based on
reliable information, the Government of Iran has continually provided detailed replies and the
representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and other relevant authorities, in the past, have
had meetings with the Rapporteur, and this interaction has continued, as Madame Rapporteur
has mentioned.
Reply to paragraph 11
Since the President of the country is responsible for implementation of the Constitution and the
safeguarding, protection and support of freedom, the respect for the rights and freedoms of the
people, he has proclaimed the "Citizens' Rights Bill" as a government policy to respect and
promote the fundamental rights of the Iranian nation. The purpose of this Charter is based on
the aim of promoting citizenship rights and developing a "government plan and policy", subject
to Article 134 of the Constitution, and includes a set of citizenship rights that have been
identified either in the sources of the Iranian legal system or the government shall take any
necessary legal action to identify and implement them. The welcome expressed by the Draft
Report of the Charter of Civil Rights and the efforts of the 11th and 12th government is
positively evaluated and welcome and emphasized by the will of the twelfth government
toward further implementation of this Charter.
Reply to Paragraph 12
In this paragraph, instead of proposing objectives of the Report, it has taken a hasty judgment
and, thereby, deprived the opportunity for an impartial assessment and analysis in the
continuation of the draft report. In such a case, the introduction becomes the final conclusion
and compilation which is contrary to an expected structure of a balanced and fair report. In
particular, instead of focusing on such issues as: advancement in various areas related to
women, health, the need to combat the massive drug trafficking and related serious crimes,
increase the professional activity of journalists and the media, promotion of the status of
ethnical and religious minorities, the diversity of civil society activities and NGO organizations
in Iran, as well as the gravity of the damaging effects of unilateral and illegal sanctions of some
countries on the human rights of the Iranian people, inaccurate criticisms are raised this
paragraph, which have prepared the ground for the report to present a distorted picture of the
situation of human rights in Iran. Thus, this paragraph is needed to be deleted.
Reply to paragraph 13
As it was mentioned, unfortunately, in this paragraph, a number of incorrect statistics are
mentioned that need to be amended. The process of reduction of more than 50 percent of
executions over the past two years, according to the acclamation of this paragraph, is very
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