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US sanctions clear example of full-scale war against Iranians: Official
Speaking at the unveiling ceremony of Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s annual report on human rights violations by the US and the United Kingdom on Sunday, Forouzandeh Vadiati underscored that the main sources of the report were the information contained in the reports and news of international human rights bodies and mechanisms, particularly those of the United Nations.
Vadiati said that a year-long monitoring of the human rights situation in the UK and the US showed the human rights restrictions imposed by these countries on innocent people — both internally and beyond their borders — had sharply increased and reached an “alarming level.”
“These restrictions, accompanied by repression, have targeted civil liberties and peaceful gatherings, particularly those held by protesters condemning the shameful genocide of innocent children, women, and men in Gaza and other countries of the West Asia region by the Zionist regime [of Israel]”, she added.
Referring to the US-Israel’s aggression against Iran in June, the Iranian official said that the war stood as a “clear example of a crime against humanity” and a direct threat to regional and global security.
Regarding the human rights situation in the UK, she said that the report presented a “concerning and alarming picture” of the human rights situation there, including xenophobia, inhumane policies toward refugees, institutionalized Islamophobia and Iranophobia, the systematic restriction of civil liberties and freedom of expression, the suppression of the right to protest, and crackdown on peaceful demonstrations held in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Vadiati also pointed to the London’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, saying that report documented how British military and political support for the “child-killing Israeli regime” fueled instability and widespread human rights violations in other parts of the world, including the West Asia region.