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EU, UK bans aimed at diverting attention from Israeli genocide: Iran
In a statement on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stressed that the new sanctions by Britain and the European bloc against several Iranian individuals and entities were based on false and unfounded pretexts, Press TV reported.
He strongly denounced the move as an unjustifiable action that violates the international law, especially human rights.
Over the alleged transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war, the EU imposed sanctions against flagship carrier Iran Air, Saha Airlines and Mahan Air, Iran’s Deputy Defense Minister Seyyed Hamzeh Ghalandari, prominent officials of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, and the IRGC Aerospace Force.
This is while Tehran has strongly rejected such allegations.
The UK also announced sanctions targeting senior figures in Iran’s Army, Iran’s Air Force and organizations linked to Iran’s ballistic and cruise missile development, claiming that the sanctions came after what it alleged to be Iran’s dangerous and destabilizing activity across West Asia.
“The position of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the Ukraine conflict is clear and principled. From the very beginning of the conflict, Iran has opposed the war and emphasized the importance for all countries to respect each other’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty, while advocating for a diplomatic solution to resolve the disputes between Russia and Ukraine,” Baghaei said.
He described the anti-Iran accusations by the European Union and the UK as hypocritical and an attempt to divert public attention away from the most pressing issue of the day, that is the genocide of the Palestinian people and the warmongering acts of the Zionist regime in the West Asia region.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman pointed to the role of some European countries, including the UK and Germany, in supplying lethal weapons used by the Israeli regime for genocide and aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, describing such countries as complicit in the crimes committed against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry also summoned the ambassador of Hungary, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, to condemn the block’s sanctions.
The ministry announced in a statement Iran’s “strong objection” and said, “Resorting to illegal and coercive methods such as sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran is not acceptable in any way and will lead nowhere.”