Official equates Israel, Iran, Sudan 

September 15, 2006
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Original Source: http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=4728

A top U.N. human rights official advised advocates to protect individuals from states such as Sudan, Iran, Israel and the United States. 
“Stop taking the position of one state against another or about groups of people — we have to take the perspective of victims and people,” Craig Mokhiber, deputy to Louise Arbour, the U.N. High commissioner for human rights, told a U.N. forum Thursday in New York on “The United Nations and the Response to Genocide,” according to people who attended. Individuals should be protected from crimes carried out by states, Mokhiber said, “whether being committed by the government of Sudan or the government of Iran or the government of Israel or the government of the United States.” 
Mokhiber earlier had rejected American Jewish Committee appeals to raise Iran’s Holocaust denial at the forum, saying the commissioner “does not take sides with one government or state against another” or “one group against another.” Calls seeking comment from Arbour’s office were not returned.