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TEHRAN – Head of the High Council for Human rights has said that the aim of the assassination of the Iranian elites and sanctions implemented against Iranians, is to prevent the Iranian nation from progress.

In an interview with Iran Press, Ali Baqeri Kani said: “The experience of the past four decades has shown that the pressures have imposed costs on Iranian people, but it cannot stop people from progressing.”

Ali Baqeri-Kani said that assassination and sanctions are two sides of the same coin against the Iranian people, which began during the Obama administration.

Baqeri-Kani referred to the martyrdom of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense, adding that this crime is a continuation of Trump’s policy of maximum pressure, constituting the crippling pressure of the Obama’s era that was imposed on the Iranian nation.

The Judiciary official said that this policy has two prongs; one is the policy of sanctions imposed during the Obama’s era and targeted various areas related to the basic needs of the Iranian people, and that American officials even extended it to the medical equipment and medicine.

He added: “Of course that Western governments have committed crimes in other areas as well. When Obama was in the office, five Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated.”

Baqeri-Kani said: “Of course, the assassination of Martyr Fakhrizadeh is exactly in the same direction, both assassination and sanctions to prevent the progress of the Iranian nation.”

“Sanctions impose pressure on Iran, but Iran does not stop progressing, and these crimes increase national awareness,” Baqeri-Kani noted.

The high ranking official urged the world to condemn the assassination of Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh strongly and that these crimes should not go unanswered.

Baqeri Kani added that a rapporteur for the UN Human Rights Council prepared a report on the assassination of Martyr Qassem Soleimani and blamed the Americans, but unfortunately, he was forced to resign. Westerners behave in such a way that no dissenting voice is raised.

“We will correspond with UN officials and related institutions and ask them to condemn the assassination of Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, but the Westerners are acting in their own interests. For the past 12 years, the Zionists assassinated our nuclear scientists, and they did not condemn,” the official added.

He said: “The actions of the Westerners, which are paving the ground for the assassination, should be costly for them.”

“The silence of international authorities and the adoption of the double standard policy by international authorities means legitimizing terrorism,” he said.

Baqeri Kani added that the assassination was a terrorist act. Still, the West is reluctant to condemn such an act, and legitimizing terrorism is no less a crime than terrorism, and this is a fact, and terrorism is one of the tools of the US foreign policy.

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According to the Public Relations Department of the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism, an Iranian delegation has arrived in Geneva on Tuesday to take part at the UN Human Rights Council session.

Manijeh Safi Yari, representative of the ‘Children for Children’ movement in Iran, who is accompanying the Iranian delegation in Geneva said, “in this year’s session, we are campaigning for the theme ‘Justice for Children of Victims of Terrorism’ to strengthen the protection of children in terrorist and armed conflicts.”

“We wish to uproot extremism and violence with the power of children,” she stressed, adding “Children are the best testament to the tragedies and catastrophes created by terrorism and its supporters.”

She went on to add, “the situation of children in the world, who are affected by armed conflicts and terrorism, is very severe. For this reason, justice for children is very important and urgent. We are warning that the future and generational health will be facing many threats.”

Haghpanahi, another member of the Iranian delegation in Geneva, also stressed that “terrorism is a strategy and has no relation to any religion and faith.”

Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT) is a Tehran-based non-governmental, cultural institution whose members are the families and children of victims of terrorism.

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