Iran’s representative to the United Nations, Majid Taqt-Ravanchi, reported on Iranian state television that the United States is waging a “war” against Iranian citizens through sanctions.

Some countries use unilateral coercion as a means of war to starve innocent civilians.

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These international crimes violate the Charter of the United Nations and international law, “he said at a Security Council forum to strengthen accountability and justice for serious violations of international law on Thursday.

Takht-Ravanchi said decades of US economic and financial sanctions on Iran posed a direct threat to the lives of the most vulnerable, including children, the elderly and the sick. He called on the Security Council to pay attention to “serious violations” of international law, in particular “illegal sanctions” against Iran.

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Iran has been subject to US sanctions since the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. In May 2018, the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and other world powers and re-imposed sanctions on Iran.

Majid Takht Ravanchi told the commission that some states are taking coercive measures as a way of war by starving innocent civilians. He said the United States was attacking Iran with the harshest economic and financial sanctions, posing a direct threat to the lives of vulnerable people.

The Iranian ambassador said the sanctions had killed several Iranian patients, including children, due to restrictions on medicines and medicines.

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