Meddlesome policies pose challenge to Iran rights efforts, Iranian official says

Iran’s extensive efforts to improve the country’s human rights situation have faced serious challenges, including politically-motivated meddlesome policies, says an Iranian official, Press TV reports.

The Islamic Republic has made significant achievements with regard to human rights situation in the recent years, said Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani during an address at the 20th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday.

However, Larijani described the UN resolutions against Iran and the appointment of a UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic as some of the challenges the country faces.

Such a biased approach is in direct contradiction to the foundational principles of human rights, the Iranian official added.