FM Spokesman: US Main Violator Of HR, Int'l Law

Tehran, April 30, IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Monday that it is advisable for the US to change its approach to other nations and be accountable to the issue of human rights as well as international law. Mehmanparast made the remarks in response to the annual report of the US State Department leveling baseless accusations about the status of human rights in Iran. Adopting a double-standard policy on the issue of human rights is not a new issue and it has turned into a political procedure in the US, he said. He enumerated the cases of human rights violations by the US as supporting terrorist group, MKO, and removing its name from its list of terrorists, setting up illegal detention centers including Guantanamo prison, torture cases and systematic violation of human rights, merciless carnage of civilians in various parts of the world such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, drone attacks, abduction of different nationals and their transfer to a third country, violence against immigrants and their families, widening of social gaps, suppression of Wall Street social movement, abuse of Muslims as part of islamophobia, racial discrimination and unpleasant conditions of prisons in the US./end