29 Mar 2024
Wednesday 2 January 2013 - 13:30
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EU, US should lift sanctions imposed on Iran: Indian academic

Drugs_010612It is high time that the US and the European Union (EU) revised their policy of imposing anti-Iran bans, writes Indian professor of law Syed Sarwar Husain Rizvi.
Rizvi, who teaches at Lucknow University, India, wrote in a column for Press TV on Tuesday that the US-engineered sanctions blatantly contravene the UN Charter whose Article 2 provides for sovereign equality for all its member nations.

Imposing sanctions on concocted frivolous excuses on Iran...is a discriminative debacle contravening the spirit of Article 2 of [the] UN Charter, he wrote.

Rizvi noted in his article that the sanctions are affecting Iranian civilians and their progress adversely.

Financial and economic blockades have been the policy of US towards Iran since more than three decades [ago] by setting pace for EU, he went on to say.

Rizvi, however, praised Irans brave resistance against the resulting economic war to meet with punitive measure.
Let this simple thing enter into the minds of the members of the EU, US and UN for cool understanding to proceed with lifting the sanctions from now at least in the interest of prevailing peace on Earth, he concluded.
At the beginning of 2012, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on Irans oil and financial sectors with the goal of preventing other countries from purchasing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with the Central Bank of Iran. The sanctions entered into force last summer.

On October 15, 2012, the EU foreign ministers reached an agreement on another round of sanctions against Iran.

The illegal US-engineered sanctions were imposed based on the unfounded accusation that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

By Press TV

 

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