In a press release on the event of the American Human Rights Evaluation and Publicity Week (June 27-July 3), Iran’s International Ministry denounced the political method and use of double requirements on human rights by the US.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran emphasizes that US unilateralism and imposition of unilateral financial sanctions with the intention of forcing governments to alter their insurance policies is a gross and systematic violation of human rights,” the ministry stated.
Iran “considers the US use of financial means to strain politically unbiased nations as a transparent instance of human rights violations and the usage of financial terrorism to realize political targets, and believes that this has uncovered identified norms and frameworks of human rights to advanced challenges”, it added.
The Islamic Republic, the ministry stated, is without doubt one of the nations most severely affected by the instrumental use of human rights by the US, Press TV reported.
“The imposition of unilaterally coercive sanctions by the US has turn out to be a instrument for violating the pure and authorized rights of the Iranian individuals, together with the correct to life, the correct to well being, the correct to satisfactory dwelling requirements, the correct to training and entry to data and know-how, and the correct to growth along with the gross violation of the rights of ladies, youngsters, the aged and folks with disabilities.”
The ministry touched on a few of the repercussions of the sanctions, saying that they had endangered meals safety, led to the non-cooperation of corporations supplying medical and well being items and tools with Iran and disrupted buy of medicine for uncommon and acute illnesses.
Because of the sanctions, it stated, Iranian researchers and physicians have been banned from accessing medical assets accessible on the servers of the Nationwide Library of Drugs (NLM) and PubMed, particularly throughout the peak of the coronavirus outbreak.
Sanctions on the aviation business and plane elements have significantly endangered the security of Iranian passenger planes, whereas the dearth of entry to the worldwide monetary system and refusal of international corporations to just accept international trade ensures issued by Iranian banks have put further financial strain on bread-earning Iranian girls and led to a decline in buying energy of the aged and issues for individuals with bodily and psychological disabilities in accessing medicines and medical tools, satisfactory care and rehabilitation, it added.
Nonetheless, Iran will not be the one nation that has suffered from the double requirements and systematic human rights violations by the US, the ministry stated.
Whereas the US claims to be an advocate of human rights, there isn’t any significant monitoring of the violations of the rights of minorities equivalent to Muslims and folks of shade inside the US the place hate-mongering is broadly pursued by officers and police forces, it added.
In line with the Iranian International Ministry, the US “is the most important supporter of the Israeli occupation regime, which, by its materials and non-material help of the regime, offers the premise for the continuation of human rights violations within the occupied territories.”
Furthermore, “the oppressed and defenseless individuals of Yemen are focused day by day by American weapons, that are bought to the aggressor and warring nations for monetary and industrial functions, whereas any finish to the disaster within the nation is opposed”, it stated.
Utilizing the 2 ideas of human rights and counterterrorism as a instrument, the US has additionally bodily eradicated the best heroes of the combat towards terrorism, most lately Lieutenant Basic Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated by the US authorities in 2020, the ministry added.
“As highlighted by the UN Human Rights Council’s thematic rapporteurs, the assassination of Basic Soleimani is an arbitrary violation of the correct to life and opposite to the provisions of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Common Declaration of Human Rights.”
