29 Mar 2024
Friday 14 April 2017 - 16:41
Story Code : 257119

Iran: US in no position to talk about human rights



Press TV- Tehran says Washington is in no position to comment on the issue of human rights after the US imposed sanctions onan Iranian individual and an organization for what it called their rights abuses.

The United States on Thursday added Sohrab Soleimani, the supervisor of Security and Law Enforcement Deputyship at Irans Prisons Organization, and the Tehran Prisons Organization to its human rights-related sanctions list.

"The US government, due to its failed domestic and international record, is not in a position to comment or act on the human rights situation in other countries," Iran'sForeign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemisaid Friday.

"Nor has any international authority trusted such responsibility with the US administration to assess on its own the human rights situation in other countries and to make decisions for them," he added.

Sohrab Soleimani is the younger brother of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps whose occasional sojourn among the Iraqi forces on the anti-Daesh battleground has drawn international attention.

Baghdad has hailed Soleimani as being among the trustworthy commanders for the Iraqi government.

This is the second time since US President Donald Trumps January inauguration that Washington targets Iranian individuals and institutions with sanctions.

?Qassemi saidunilateral and coercive sanctions" by the US are an "illegitimate measure which has negative effects on the enjoyment of human rights of individuals."

"Such repetitive measures in line with specific political objectives of the American government, declaring unilateral sanctions under baseless allegation of human rights violationsagainst individuals or entities of independent states, breachthe tenets of international law and international human rights law and areillegitimate and illegal," he said.

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In March, the US State Department said Washington had sanctioned 30 foreign companies or individuals for transferring sensitive technology to Iran for its missile program or violating export controls on Iran, North Korea and Syria.

The move prompted Iran to announce retaliatory sanctions on 15 American companies over their support for Israeli crimes and terrorism.

"The American government'sinterventionist measures, more than anything, are aimed atcovering up the problems of human rights in that country and divertingworld opinion fromitscrimes and its support forsystematic and gross violations of human rights by some of its allies in the region, in particularthe Zionist regime, which have dark human rights records," Qassemi said on Friday.

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