U.S. imposes new Iran sanctions over alleged human rights violation

U.S. imposes new Iran sanctions over alleged human rights violation
      The U.S. imposes new Iran sanctions over alleged human rights violation

 

The United States on Thursday blacklisted several Iranian officials and entities over alleged human rights violations, including slapping sanctions on a judge it said was involved in the case of an Iranian wrestler sentenced to death.

 

This comes three days after the U.S. threatened to reinstate all international sanctions against Iran single-handedly if other UN member countries failed to do so.

 

The unilateral declaration has been rejected by Iran and other members of the international community, including Washington’s close allies.

 

“If UN Member States fail to fulfill their obligations to implement these sanctions, the United States is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences for those failures and ensure that Iran does not reap the benefits of UN-prohibited activity,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. human rights violation

 

All parties to the nuclear deal, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Russia, and China insisted that the U.S. cannot trigger the snapback mechanism to restore all UN sanctions as the U.S. is no longer a member of the JCPOA, the official name for the 2015 nuclear deal.

 

China said the U.S. move against Iran is a “self-orchestrated farce.”

 

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Russia said the move is “legally and procedurally null and void.”Thursday’s announcement of sanctions is nothing new, but another part of U.S. “maximum pressure” against Iran to force the country to return to the negotiation table and strike a new nuclear deal.The new sanctions targeted Irian Judge Seyyed Mahmoud Sadati, Judge Mohammad Soltani, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz, and Adel Abad, Orumiyeh, and Vakilabad Prisons. Pompeo said Sadati, a judge of Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court, presided over a recent trial that led to the sentencing of Navid Afkari, an Iranian wrestler, to death.
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