Iran:

No Country Safe from US Inhuman Behavior

Iranian Deputy Justice Minister for Human Rights and International Affairs Mahmoud Abbasi blasted the US for extensive violation of human rights, noting that Washington has hurt all the world states with this behavior.

News ID: 442538

Date: 21 December 2018 - 19:33

RNA - "The US government has a record full of crimes against humanity and violation of human rights in and outside the country," Abbasi said in an interview with the state TV on Wednesday.

"There is no country in the world today that has been spared with a long list of the US government's inhuman behavior in there," he added.

Abbasi referred to the US drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan and Somalia and the dreaded prisons like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and other covert detention centers in other countries as some instances of the US violation of human rights, and said, "The US support for the Zionist regime has also grown into one of Washington's foreign policy principles since the establishment of the regime."

Iran has always been a critique of the US violation of human rights and anti-humane behavior with its nationals and foreign nations.

In November, 2010, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to sign the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.

It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for human rights in the world, had despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite former President Barack Obama's promise, not shut down the Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib horrendous prisons.

It was stressed in the report that the United States had not yet joined the most important convention related to the economic, social and cultural rights that was among the most important human rights documents.

The Children's Rights Committee of the United Nations, too, announced that the United States had been one of the greatest producers and distributors of the world child pornography products, while it is now one of the only two countries in the world that had not yet joined the International Children's Rights Convention.

On January 27, 2014, Iran’s Basij (Volunteer) Force released a comprehensive report on the violation of human rights by the US inside the country and abroad.

The report was unveiled in a ceremony participated by former Commander of Iran's Basij Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Esfandiari who is also the lieutenant commander of Basij Force, former Parliament's First Vice-Speaker Hassan Aboutorabi Fard, Iranian Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani and a number of Judiciary officials and experts.

According to Fars News, the report referred to different cases of violation of human rights by the US, including the executions, arbitrary detentions, torture of inmates, violation of people’s privacy, violation of the rights of the minorities, Muslims and native Americans, racism and US President Barack Obama’s opposition to the freedom of expression.

President Obama promised that he would close Guantanamo Bay detention camp, but met strong bipartisan opposition from Congress, which passed laws to prohibit detainees from Guantanamo being imprisoned in the US.

In January 2018, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep the prison camp open indefinitely. In May 2018, the first prisoner was transferred during Trump's term; this reduced the number of inmates to 40.

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