News - Middle East: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned the UN Human Rights Council over organizing any session on Iran, noting that such a measure will affect Iran’s cooperation with the West.

The Iranian minister discussed several issues in a phone conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday night.

Amir-Abdollahian slammed the double standards of some Western governments and rejected their efforts to hold a UN Human Rights Council session on Iran.

“The UN Human Rights Council should hold sessions for governments that are encouraging violence and terror, not for the Islamic Republic of Iran which is a true defender of human rights and has exercised great restraint during recent riots,” he said.

He warned about the “negative consequences” of the UNHRC’s “political measure” on cooperation between Iran and the West.

“Contrary to the UN Charter, few Western countries exploited the peaceful demands in Iran and encouraged violence and offered tutorials on building weapons and Molotov cocktail on media and social networks which led to the killing of police and insecurity in Iran,” stressed the minister.