The head of Iran’s National Welfare Organization (SWO) has condemned the unlawful sanctions imposed by the US and Western governments on the nation’s incapacity neighborhood.
Ali Mohammed Qaderi mentioned, “The worldwide neighborhood and human rights boards should deal with a key query: What human rights rules are in line with and justify the sanctions imposed on the Iranian incapacity neighborhood?”
He was talking on the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP17) in New York on Tuesday.
Qaderi mentioned the Islamic Republic of Iran prioritizes the implementation of community-based rehabilitation applications on the nationwide degree and that the nation will do its utmost to advertise mandatory companies for individuals with disabilities in accordance with the conference framework.
U.S. sanctions in opposition to Iran have taken new twists since May 2018, when former President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew Iran from the 2015 nuclear deal and reinstated a troublesome financial embargo in opposition to Tehran.
Qaderi mentioned the Islamic Republic is dedicated to additional enhancing the empowerment, independence and social integration of individuals with disabilities and has launched into complete efforts to make sure their entry in each the bodily surroundings and our on-line world.
“This is regardless of the brutal sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran by the United States and lots of Western international locations, which have drastically elevated the price of rehabilitation provides and specialised companies, affecting the financial means of people to entry them,” he mentioned.
“Don’t you assume that creating boundaries to worldwide communication for Iran’s disabled neighborhood will in the end deprive them of equal rights to training and rehabilitation services?” Qaderi requested on the discussion board.
Medical specialists blame U.S. sanctions for shortages of medicines to deal with particular diseases equivalent to most cancers and epilepsy, and warn that the harm attributable to the ban on Iran’s drug provides might worsen sooner or later.
The Iranian authorities has tried to bypass sanctions and import medicines from suppliers who normally cost exorbitant costs.
“The bloodbath in Gaza is occurring earlier than our eyes”
In his speech at COSP17, Kaderi highlighted the dire state of affairs of the Palestinian folks, significantly youngsters and other people with disabilities in Gaza, who’re enduring unimaginable struggling beneath the Israeli regime’s brutal occupation.
“The Zionist regime’s systematic repression is a stark reminder of one of the horrific episodes in human historical past,” he mentioned. “War crimes, crimes in opposition to humanity, genocide and widespread humanitarian crises are unfolding earlier than our very eyes.”
Qaderi pressured that the deliberate destruction of medical services and infrastructure is additional exacerbating the disaster in Gaza, denying Palestinians with disabilities entry to important companies.
“The worldwide neighborhood has an obligation to behave decisively to carry the Israeli regime to account for its flagrant violations of worldwide humanitarian and human rights regulation.”