Financial Spots – Nov 20, 2015 -The resolution adopted by the United Nations human rights committee at the UN General Assembly condemning human rights violation in Iran is expected to pass the full General Assembly in December. It notes the “alarming high frequency” of the death penalty in Iran. Iran’s deputy ambassador told the committee Thursday that the resolution represents “a selective and politicized distortion of facts”. Dehghani urged the new government of Justin Trudeau in Canada to drop the annual exercise of drafting the “counter-productive and unjust” resolution on Iran’s rights violations and begin talks to address concerns. It calls on the Iranian regime “to abolish, in law and in practice, public executions… and executions carried out in violation of its worldwide obligations” and “to ensure, in law and in practice, that no one is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. He also reported that executions had been rising at an “exponential” rate between 2005 and peaked in 2014, at a “shocking” 753 executions, and that for the first seven months of 2015, the rate of executions “accelerated at a further staggering rate”. Fifteen voted against it, including Syria allies Russian Federation and Iran as well as China. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of Iranian dissident group the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said the resolution proves that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s assertions that Tehran is letting up restrictions on its people post-nuclear deal are unfounded.