In a letter on Tuesday to Ban, Shahaboddin Sadr described as “inhuman” the US-engineered ban by Western and European countries on sales of medications and medical equipment to Iran.
“It [the ban] reveals the countenance of tyrants … and confirms the point that Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy [program] is just a pretext for inhuman plunder of and onslaught against the Iranian people and the Islamic Revolution,” he added.
“Mr. Ban Ki-moon! Here is my question: On the basis of which law and which moral, religious and human criterion, are the evil powers and arrogant countries imposing embargoes on the supply of medications and primary healthcare requirements of a nation’s children, women and men while the United Nations, which is headed by you, remains silent?” Sadr asked the UN chief.
“I have another question: Will a United Nations whose Security Council, according the Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei], suffers from an illogical, non-democratic and dictatorial structure, be able to give security to the world nations and people?”
Iranian health authorities say recent illegal unilateral sanctions, led by the US and the EU, have made it impossible to obtain medications needed for some diseases.
A transplant surgeon recently told Press TV that the US-engineered sanctions against the Islamic Republic have caused a shortage of medicines in Iran, endangering the lives of many patients.
Millions of patients, suffering from diseases such as diabetes, kidney failure, hemophilia, multiple sclerosis, thalassemia, and leukemia, are affected by the sanctions.
The illegal US-engineered sanctions were imposed based on the unfounded accusation that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.
Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran's nuclear energy program has been diverted toward military objectives.
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