An Iranian deputy foreign minister has condemned Britain’s renewed sanctions on Iranian individuals as politically-motivated and biased.
The UK Treasury has renewed sanctions against 15 current and former Iranian officials under the pretext of violating human rights.
“The sanctions are unilateral, biased, politically-motivated and totally unacceptable,” Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi said on Tuesday.
The British Treasury has demanded the blocking of financial assets of the 15 individuals in the UK, prohibiting the British financial institutes from all types of transactions with them.
Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi and Heidar Moslehi, a former intelligence minister, are among those whose names appear on the list.
So far Britain has put a total number of eighty-six Iranians on its sanctions list.
On April 10, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague also launched the report dubbed, “Human Rights and Democracy: The 2013 Foreign & Commonwealth Report”, raising what he called human rights concerns in 28 key countries, including Iran.
In its report, Britain criticized Iran for what it described as Tehran’s failure to improve democracy and rights situation in the past months.
Iran dismissed the report as repetitive and biased.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said that certain countries are using human rights as a political tool for their own interests.
She said that the British government which has “routine violation of the rights of minorities, Muslims and immigrants” on its record cannot claim to be an advocate of human rights.
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