They will denounce US sanctions and promise to punish Trump and Netanyahu

A permanent representation of Iran to the United Nations in Geneva sent to various human rights mechanisms of the organisation a legal document on the consequences of banking and financial restrictions, secondary and extraterritorial sanctions and restrictions on air and maritime transport imposed by Washington, according to the official agency IRNA.

Tehran maintains that these measures do not only affect economic relations between states, but have consequences for the population due to restrictions imposed by banks, transport companies, educational institutions and other third-country economic actors.

According to the document, sanctions make it difficult for Iranians to access food, medicines and medical equipment, education, financial services and air transport, among other basic needs.

The denunciation arises more than a month after the United States launched the so-called “Economic Pariah Operation”, in parallel with a naval blockade of Iranian ports and ships, intensifying sanctions to increase Tehran’s financial isolation and pressure the Islamic Republic in the context of the war.

The new measures include sanctions against 27 Iranian airlines, which led to the suspension of links with Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Georgia, Iraq and Oman.

The Iranian representation considers that the measures should be examined in the light of international law, human rights and international humanitarian law, in particular as regards the sovereignty of States, prohibition of interference and extraterritorial effects of unilateral coercive measures.

The document was sent to special rapporteurs and other UN mechanisms related to food, education and health rights to assess the legal and humanitarian consequences on the civilian population.

The new US economic pressure occurs seven months after the start of the war launched by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic.

In parallel, the Iranian Armed Forces have ensured that they will not leave unanswered the deaths of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, other Iranian senior officials and civilians during the conflict.

“ Even in the event that this war ends, without any doubt or exception, we will not forgive the murderers of our supreme leader or the innocent and defenseless civilians, especially the dead children of this people,” said the spokesperson of the Armed Forces, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, to state television.

According to the military, the day of the “punishment” of the American President, Donald Trump, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will arrive “ sooner or later”, even when they no longer hold official positions, classifying them as “murderers and war criminals”.

The United States and Israel killed Ali Khamenei and other Iranian high officials on the first day of the war on 28 February.

On that day, at least 168 students and teachers died in an attack on a primary school in Minab, southern the country, and 21 other people in a bombing of a sports pavilion in Lamerd.

In mid-September, the United Nations Independent International Research Mission on Iran considered that there were “reasonable reasons” to believe that the United States committed “war crimes” in these two attacks.

Iranian conservative sectors have claimed revenge for the death of the supreme leader and other senior officials during the war.

Also in September, the Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, said that the war, the blockade and US sanctions were preventing people from accessing “foods and medicines”.