A/HRC/37/68/Add.1 Final Considerations The designation of a country-specific human rights Rapporteur for a country like Iran that is consistent with its obligations toward its citizens and the international community is fundamentally unnecessary. In addition, the mechanism of the country's Rapporteur, at the United Nations, must be based on professional, just, impartial, fair and non-political principles. It should be noted that the Human Rights Council has been established to prevent doublestandard behaviours, and that the UPR mechanism is to be based on the equal treatment with all countries; Hence, such a mechanism should not be weakened by parallel actions. Therefore, the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the appointment of the Special Rapporteur for this country is unjustified on the basis of the provided reasons, and it is unacceptable because of non-fulfillment and observance of the above-mentioned characteristics. - The Islamic Republic of Iran, with a serious intention to engage and cooperate with international mechanisms, has responded to all paragraphs of the draft report. Also, all the cases specified in the draft have been answered, and in the case of some individuals mentioned in the draft, inquiries have been made to the competent authorities which, due to the lack of time, shall be provided upon receiving replies from them. Referring to the statistics of 7 responses from 9 communications in the current report, of the Rapporteur, shows a rate of 77% of response and an indication of Iran's constructive and expanding cooperation with the Rapporteur and other Special Mandate Holders. - In the present answer, the Islamic Republic of Iran has provided extensive information on the promotion of the human rights situation, and calls for its inclusion in the final report, and in many cases, given the availability of adequate information, requests for the removal or allegations. In observance of her duties, set forth in the assignments of the Rapporteurs, we hope that these replies are adequately reflected in the final report. - In response to the Draft Report of the Special Rapporteur to the 72 nd General Assembly, she was requested to amend 21 items and delete 34 paragraphs as mentioned hereunder; which, unfortunately, were not considered and the allegations contained in the final version were repeated in paragrahs 30, 34, 39, 44, 50, 51, 52, 53, 58, 63, 68, 76, 84, 85, 89, 94, 98, 102, 103, 104, 105 and removal of the parts: 6, 15, 17, 22, 31, 32, 45, 46, 54, 55, 57, 60, 61, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 76, 80, 81, 83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100 and 103. - Despite numerous remarks by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to the last draft reports of the Special Rapporteur, on the need for condemnation of the anti-human rights sanctions against Iranian citizens, the Special Rapporteur finally raised, although late, the harmful effects of sanctions on the rights of Iranian citizens. Nevertheless, the Special Rapporteur is expected , in the light of the document (A / HRC / RES / 27/21) and in cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on unilateral measures, to draw up a final report detailing the harmful effects of illegal and anti-human rights, which have affected the rights of the public of Iranian citizens. And further denounce the sanctions. It is surprising that a country with the development of Iran, whose democratic system, with reliance on religious rationality, reliance on people's votes, holding numerous elections and power rotation between the various parties, runs the country well and achieves its sublime goals and further social, cultural, and economic development, to be subjected to attacks and unfair accusations because of the independence of its foreign policy and opposition to hegemony and domination of some western countries, in particular the United States; and also receive continuous human rights resolution in the years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution; while these countries commit gross violations of human rights inside and outside their territories, and even have close allies who have not tolerated democracy and are fully reactionary, or have been involved in aggression and killing of innocent children. But, in the shadow of their support, they are not seriously criticized by international human rights mechanisms. - The formation of the model in this report, which is referred to in this respond, as the model of weakening democracy, has been repeated in various parts of the world and has failed in Iran, which has to be seriously taken into consideration due to the nature of its human rights. International human rights mechanisms, including the Special procedures, are no exception to this rule and it is necessary for them to act in their due direction in support of democracies established in developing countries. 40