The United Nations’ human rights experts have never struggled to find their voices when Israel is involved. Over the past two years, they have issued a steady stream of statements, condemnations, urgent appeals, and special reports on Gaza—often within hours of Israeli military actions, frequently before facts were established, and sometimes on the basis of claims later proven false.
But when the Islamic Republic of Iran unleashed a campaign of mass killing against its own people—one that in just two weeks produced a death toll rivaling or exceeding two years of war in Gaza—those same UN experts largely fell silent.
The contrast is not subtle. It is damning.
According to a detailed analysis by UN Watch, of the 87 UN-appointed “Special Procedures” human rights experts, only five signed onto a joint statement condemning Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests. That statement came weeks after security forces opened fire on civilians, imposed a near-total internet blackout, and carried out mass arrests across all 31 provinces of the...
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