Iran on Wednesday rejected as biased and political the latest United Nations report on human rights in the Islamic Republic.

Iran on Wednesday rejected as biased and political the latest United Nations report on human rights in the Islamic Republic.

"The UN Special Rapporteur's report on Iran is biased, discriminatory, and prepared with political motives," foreign ministry spokesman Hussein Jaber Ansari said in a statement.

"Through exploiting international human rights mechanisms," the report "reduces human rights to a political dispute."

Iran is "committed to its obligations with regards to promotion of human rights in compliance with the constitution and religious values" and is preparing a charter on citizens rights, he added.

The report claimed that, ," at least 966 persons,

The UN's top expert on the human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, told its Human Rights Council on Monday that . executions in Iran in 2015 were at "the highest rate in over two decades."