AJC Applauds UN Human Rights Council Decision to Investigate Abuses in Iran

The resolution was adopted by a vote of 25 to 6 with 16 abstentions at today’s Council special session on “the deteriorating human rights situation” in Iran. Seventeen council members, led by Germany and Iceland, had requested the special session on November 14. It was the first time since the Council’s establishment in 2006 that the UN’s principal body on human rights convened in a special session dedicated to Iran.