According to a US official, for the first time, the United States will allow foreign judges and courts to commit serious human rights abuses, as it has targeted Iran's revolutionary court system for a 27-year-old wrestler and other abuses.
An official of the US Secretary of State
said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday afternoon imposed
sanctions on Judge Syed MahmoUd Sadati, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of
Shiraz and Naveed Afkari for his involvement in the trial, imprisonment and
execution of Adelabad Jail. Will announce Afkari was a wrestler who was
arrested’ in 2018 for taking part in a protest. He was charged’ with murder,
torture and execution on September 12, according to the U.S. official.
"These so-called 'revolutionary
courts' are not the ones that will be recognized as a court in the United
States. Elliott Abrams, the US special envoy for Iran, said: "Their goal
is to maintain the government's capacity for power and to imprison or order the
execution of Iranians seeking freedom." They take orders of their
decisions from Ayatollah and they ridicule justice.
The execution drew sharp international
condemnation. It also forced state and treasury officials to complete the
approval process, which, according to one official, could take months, often
less than two weeks, according to one official.
The sanctions represent a change in the
State Department's long-standing policy of removing judges and courts from
human rights in foreign countries. According to the US official, in order to
authorize the sanctions, Pompeo vowed that the Iranian court system does not
work like the ordinary court system.
According to the US official, US citizen
Michael White was detained’ before his release in June, where US citizen
Michael White was released.
In December, under a separate authority,
the Treasury Department approved two judges to preside over branches of Iran's
revolutionary courts, allowing them to "exercise their freedom and freedom
of expression and serve long prison terms." Has been sentenced’ to
flogging and even execution. "
The Trump administration has stepped up
its campaign against Iran, seeking to restore UN Security Council sanctions
this week that were suspended’ by the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The United States
withdrew from the agreement in 2018, and other countries in the agreement could
refuse to force the United States to impose UN sanctions on Iran. In a joint
statement, Britain, France and Germany said the US exercise "has no legal
effect." The US president announced on Monday that he would enforce the
sanctions anyway.
Since the US withdrawal from the deal,
Iran has consistently violated the terms of the agreement and strengthened its
nuclear program. Earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency
said Iran had 10 times enriched uranium under the deal.
Asked this week whether Iran's nuclear
program would be as advanced as the United States remains in the deal, Pompeo
said, "Iran will have more wealth. This government has more to build more
centrifuges. There will be even more money to build capabilities, to further
enhance the air defense system, which could prevent us from acquiring nuclear
weapons.
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