HCHR- “Unilateral sanctions are a crime against humanity and a serious offense,” Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, said Sunday during a gathering of officials in Tehran focusing on the US human rights record.
“These sanctions have affected all people in Iran,” he added.
Gharibabadi called on the international community to be “more sensitive” to the issue, and take a position on the violation by the United States of the rights of nations.
“The crimes committed by the US against nations are unprecedented in human history,” the official noted.
Gharibabadi said that about 17,000 Iranians have been assassinated since the 1979 victory of the Islamic Revolution, chief among them top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was martyred in a US drone strike in Baghdad three years ago.
The role of the United States and its allies must be highlighted in these crimes, he said.
It should also be noted that the United States bears responsibility for the Israeli regime’s crimes against the Iranian nation, Gharibabadi added..