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Iran decries Israel’s exclusion from UN ‘List of Shame’
TASNIM – The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman criticized the United Nations for leaving the Zionist regime off the UN “List of Shame” despite the regime’s appalling human rights violations.
In a post on his Twitter account on Sunday, Nasser Kanaani said it is surprising that the Israeli regime has been left off the List of Shame despite imprisoning 160 children and keeping 600 innocent children and 600 Palestinian patients, including 30 physically disabled, under house arrest.
He said the “child-murdering” Zionist regime has been excluded from the UN List of Shame, while its forces have killed 26 Palestinian children during the first half of the current year alone.
The UN chief said in a recent report that he was “deeply concerned” by the number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in 2022.
According to the report, 42 Palestinian children were killed and 933 injured in 2022 by Israeli forces. In 2021, Israeli forces killed 78 Palestinian children.
Iran seized five tons of narcotics
last year
IRNA – The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) has announced that its narcotics seizures amounted to 5.34 tons in the past Iranian calendar year (ending March 20, 2023).
According to a Sunday report, the Iranian customs officers seized various illicit drugs worth over $165.5 million over the Iranian year, to late March.
IRICA officers carried out a series of complicated operations to discover narcotics from tankers and trucks, said the report, adding that officers had made some 101 arrests over drug trafficking over the past year.
The Iranian Customs Administration also launched a series of modern equipment in its border offices to facilitate checks and seizures related to narcotics shipments over the past year, it added.