Pot calling kettle black? North Korea, Iran take potshots at CIA torture report

In a recent series of hypocritical tweets, Iran is the latest nation to come out and condemn the US for their recently released CIA torture report.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei commented via his Twitter profile and has called the torture of Al-Qaeda suspects by the CIA ‘symbol of tyranny against humanity’.

Referring to a speech he gave in 2007, Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted:

Considering the multiple number of people who have died in detention in Iran in recent years, and the case of a woman hanged in October for stabbing to death a man she said had tried to sexually assault her, this might be a case of pot calling the kettle black.

North Korea, a country the UN recently accused of crimes against humanity, too joined in on the US hate bandwagon.

A spokesman for the North Korea’ Foreign Ministry, asked in the country’s mouthpiece KCNA, why the UN is “turning its face from the inhuman torture practiced by the CIA” .

Discussing North Korea’s rights record while ‘shutting its eyes’ to rights violations by one of its permanent members, would confirm the council’s ‘miserable position’ as a ’tool for US arbitrary practices,’ a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement.

These statements from the dictatorial regime come at a time when the Security Council is expected to meet on North Korea’s rights record, following a proposal to refer Pyongyang to the International Criminal Court on possible charges of crimes against humanity.

Another nation that has battled with the US on the questionable human rights record China was also quick to comment.

Seemingly anticipating the report’s brutal content, China’s Xinhua state news agency dedicated a webpage to the 500-page document, headlined: “How long can the US pretend to be a human rights champion?” the Guardian reported.

The UN high commissioner for human rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein, cracked down saying, it’s “crystal clear” under international law that the United States, which ratified the UN Convention Against Torture in 1994, now has an obligation to ensure accountability.