Castro regime joins "axis of shame" at the United Nations trying to cover up Islamic Regime of Iran's human rights violations in Iran.

Good news today for the people of Iran. The Islamic Regime of Iran will have to answer to a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Iran. The United Nations Human Rights Council voted 25 to 6 to create it, and condemned human rights abuses in Iran.

Bad news for Cuba. 

The Castro regime in Geneva today joined an "axis of shame" with the People's Republic of China, Eritrea, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Venezuela to block the creation of an investigative mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ongoing crimes.

Credit to Hillel Neuer of UNWatch for aptly coining the term Axis of Shame for this deplorable vote, and defense of the Mullahs.

Drama at UNHRC session on Iran: In surprise move, China tries to kill paragraph creating an investigative mission on Tehran regime’s crimes. Totally defeated! 25-6. Only China, Cuba, Eritrea, Indonesia, Pakistan & Venezuela supported it. Axis of Shame. Full text will pass soon. pic.twitter.com/H3pXa9vq2V

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 24, 2022

How it started.

Mahsa Amini beaten and killed by morality police for not properly wearing her hijab.

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested in Iran by the Morality police on September 13, 2022. They beat her badly, left her in a coma, and she died on September 16th. She was beaten to death for not properly wearing her hijab. A little bit of her hair was visible. News of her extrajudicial killing at the hand of agents of the Islamist regime in Iran sparked nationwide protests

Since September 17, 2022, the repressive forces of the Islamist Regime of Iran have killed 440 protesters, and over 18,000 Iranians have been arrested.

This blog has been following events unfolding in Iran over the past two months, and remain horrified at the brutality of the Islamist theocracy in Iran, and the Castro regime's support for this brutal regime that has brutally murdered so many young girls and boys.

We have also joined in protests denouncing these human rights abuses, and calling for a democratic transition in Iran. 

This blog on September 24, 2022 called for readers to listen to Iranian women, and to follow Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih on Twitter and amplify her voice, and that of other Iranian women such as:  Nazanin Nour @NazaninNour, Roya Hakakian @RoyaTheWriter, Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi, Nazenin Ansari @NazeninA, Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay @NazaninAJ, and Mariam Memarsadeghi @memarsadeghi. 

This is 7-year-old Hasti Naroei, from Iran's Baluchi minority, who was killed by security forces in Zahedan. She is one of at least 43 children killed in Iran since Sept. Tomorrow at #SS35 the @UN_HRC MUST establish an investigative & accountability mechanism on Iran #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/0aAq2P02jc

— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) November 23, 2022

Sixty one children have been killed in Iran since September 17th by the Islamist regime. Angelina Jolie posted photos of 35 of them.

Castro regime repeatedly backs Islamist regime in Iran

Over the past two months the Castro regime in Cuba has repeatedly denounced sanctions placed on the Islamist Regime in Iran, and claimed that the protests are not legitimate.

Bruno Rodriguez, the Castro regime's foreign minister on November 16, 2022 and October 24, 2022 over Twitter repeatedly condemned new sanctions placed on Iran by the United States.

The Castro dictatorship's foreign minister met with Tehran's foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on September 26, 2022 in New York City during the UN General Assembly.

Dictatorships' diplomats: Bruno Rodriguez in Cuba and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Iran.

The Cuban dictatorship’s official media is blaming the United States, and other Western Democracies for the protests in Iran. The mullahs did the same for Havana during the nationwide protests that erupted in Cuba on July 11, 2021.

The communist regime in Havana and the Islamist regime in Tehran have had close and problematic relations for over four decades, and they are both hostile to the United States.

Fidel Castro visited Iran on May 10, 2001, four months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, where he was quoted by the Agence France Presse at the University of Tehran stating that "Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with each other, can bring America to its knees." ... "The U.S. regime is very weak, and we are witnessing this weakness from close up." 

Fidel Castro speaks with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran May 9, 2001.

Eleven years later on January 12, 2012 in Havana, Cuba the controversial president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared "Our positions, versions, interpretations are alike, very close. We have been good friends, we are and will be, and we will be together forever."

Raul Castro with Islamic Republic of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Both Havana and Tehran have close relations with the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post reported on October 16, 2022 that Hezbollah was helping the Islamist regime quash protests in Iran. Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah referred to Amini’s death as a “vague incident”and that the protests did not reflect the true will of the Iranian people, according to The Jerusalem Post.

While the Castro regime backs the Mullahs in Tehran against the Iranian people, Cuban women on November 1, 2022 called on President Biden to back the expulsion of "the murderous Iranian regime from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women." One of the signers of the letter to the President, Sirley Avila Leon, on November 19, 2022 at a protest for freedom in Iran at the Torch of Friendship in Miami.