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Qualitative content analysis reveals how the UN Human Rights Council represents political actors in Iran, indicating varied discursive strategies employed by different states.
The present qualitative content analysis investigates how various members of the UN Human Rights Council represent different political actors of Iran discursively after the events sparked by the death of Jina Amini in September 2022. The data involved 21 speeches of the UN Human Rights Council members voting for establishing a fact‐finding mission to investigate objectively and impartially the events that happened in Iran. Influenced by Wodak's Discourse‐Historical Approach (DHA) framework, the study investigates how different groups of Representative States adopted discursive strategies to represent political actors in Iran. Reviewing the coded data showed that predication and argumentation followed by nomination strategies were dominant strategies deployed by each speaker. The results revealed how groups with multiple ideologies deployed similar strategies to depict realities depending on their stance concerning the Iranian political actors.
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