TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Head of Iran's Human Rights Headquarters for International Affairs Kazzem Qaribabadi underlined that the country reserves the right to lodge a complaint with the international courts against those countries which imposed sanctions against Tehran.

"Given the contradiction of sanctions with different human rights principles, countries which impose sanctions will be legally responsible," Qaribabadi said, addressing a roundtable on the impacts of sanctions on human rights in Tehran on Saturday.


Stressing that sanctions act like weapons for the damage they inflict on ordinary people, he said they also affect the development of countries' infrastructures and create panic.


"Such impacts show themselves in malnutrition, increased rate of infants' death at labor and miscarriage, public health, unemployment and shortage of goods," Qaribabadi said.


In relevant remarks in 2014, Iranian Vice-President for Legal Affairs Elham Aminzadeh lashed out at the West’s unilateral sanctions against Iran, calling the western embargos as an international crime that threatens global security.


"The comprehensive sanctions which are of coercive, unilateral and international type can be regarded as an international crime in view of their vast destructive and inhumane impacts," Aminzadeh said, addressing a seminar in Tehran.


She underlined that those who had placed Iran under sanctions should be held accountable to the international community according to the basic policies of humanity and the contents of the human rights charter.


By Fars News Agency