A member of Iran's Majlis ( parliament) said the United States and Israel have had influence on the recent UN human rights resolution against the Islamic republic, Press TV reported Thursday.

A UN General Assembly committee on Tuesday condemned Iran for human rights abuses, with 83 countries voting in favor, 31 against, and 68 abstentions.

"The report (of the committee) is full of ambiguity, and such reports that are prepared in the West pursue the demands of the Zionist regime (Israel) and the U.S., and they release such reports out of hostility," Mohammad Hassan Asafari, a member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Also on Tuesday, the secretary of Iran's Human Rights Bureau, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, slammed a recent report by the United Nations human rights investigator on Iran, saying that it is without any "legal basis."

Last week, Ahmed Shaheed, UN special rapporteur on human rights situation in Iran, said in a report that the Islamic republic has repeatedly limited freedom of media and right activists inside the country and detained a number of them. Endi

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