Nasser Kan'ani made the remarks on Sunday in repose to a groundless move by the three Western governments to impose sanctions on a number of Iranian nationals across the world over what they claimed to be “human rights violations,” Press TV reported.
Condemning the move in the strongest terms, Kan'ani said, “Countries that have a black track record of colonial history and systematic abuse of human rights,… with such biased and sham measures, are seeking to divert the world’s public opinion from their anti-human rights actions and their full cooperation with the inhumane crimes of the child-killing Zionist regime.”
Kan'ani censured the three Western governments as the so-called human rights advocates and said their “double-standard” approach had done “grave injustice” to the elevated concepts and values of human rights.
He pointed to the three countries’ scandalous participation in the Israeli war crimes across the besieged Gaza Strip since early October and said they are “not whatsoever” in a position to judge and comment on the human rights situation in other countries.
“The governments of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, given their historic and continuous support to the Israeli regime and their publicly political, military, intelligence and media support for the regime’s war crimes in Gaza over the past two months, should be held to account as accomplices in the crimes,” Kan'ani underlined.
Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after Palestinian resistance groups carried out a surprise attack against the occupying entity in response to its decades-long crimes against Palestinians.
Israeli strikes have so far killed more than 17,400 people, most of them women and children, and injured over 46,480 others in its relentless air and ground attacks on Gaza since.
According to the UN, around 80 percent of the inhabitants of Gaza are displaced and more than 1.1 million are seeking refuge in UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) shelters.
MNA
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