Iran’s top human rights official has slammed the European Union’s double standard toward the issue of human rights, as the bloc slapped new sanctions on the Islamic Republic under the pretext of rights violation.
Faraan: Secretary General of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi said that the European Union imposes sanctions on protectors of the Iranian people’s security and safety in the face of recent Western-backed riots, but harbors the terrorists who have “murdered 17,000 innocent Iranians,” as he referred to the anti-Iran terrorist cult of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO).
The same European Union which has violated the rights of millions of Iranian civilians due to implementation of U.S.-orchestrated unilateral and cruel sanctions, and sheltered and provided unwavering support to the terrorists who have murdered 17,000 innocent Iranians. After it was founded more than 50 years ago, the MKO launched a campaign of bombings and assassinations in Iran. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the group’s acts of terror. The ill-famed terror group is currently based in Albania, where it enjoys freedom of activity after being delisted by the European Union and the United States in 2009 and 2012 respectively.
Gharibabadi’s tweet came after an EU foreign ministerial session on Monday decided to levy sanctions against 11 Iranian individuals and four entities over the country’s response to the riots that followed the death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, in hospital after she collapsed in a police station. The sanctions targeted a section of Iran’s security forces, the Basij volunteer forces, and the cyber division of the country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). The bloc also listed Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Issa Zarepour for an alleged internet shutdown. The coercive measures include travel bans and asset freezes.
