India on Friday voted against a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council that called for an urgent investigation into human rights violations in Iran during the recent protests and sought to extend the mandates of a fact-finding mission and special rapporteur. ADVERTISEMENTA UNHRC country mandate is a mechanism established by the Council to monitor, investigate and report on the human rights situation in a specific country. Iran’s ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, publicly thanked New Delhi for its vote against the resolution in Geneva. Iran’s representative told the session that had its sponsors cared genuinely for the human rights of Iranians, they would not have imposed sanctions that affected the lives of Iranians and supported Israel’s war against Iran. “Overall, the vote fits India’s broader Iran policy: Preserve working relations, avoid moral grandstanding, and prefer quiet diplomacy to megaphone censure.”

Source: The Telegraph January 25, 2026 06:15 UTC