Iran withdraws from UN Human Rights Council bid

The growing storm over Iran's "deteriorating" human rights situation has seen the country withdraw it's bid for a place on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Sources revealed that Iran had informed the Asian delegations it was pulling out on "the grounds of solidarity", but that the underlying truth was that it seemed unlikely enough votes could be secured.

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