‘Making people pawns & hostages’: UN rights expert slams US sanctions war on Iran, Cuba & Venezuela

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The people using up the resources are not Americans, they are European Colonizers holding Ab-original Americans (By Force of Arms) and Legalese, Hostages and as Human Shields and Batteries. So-called Whites (Pale-Faces) make up only about 20% or less of the People here. So-called Blacks are NOT From Africa, 95% of Us Are Ab-original and Indigenous to The American Continents (North-Central South and Caribbean Islands). The African States Know this very well, Why do they not come and Rescue (So-called Blacks) held in Captivity In America???. Maybe their Fake African Governments are on the Take from The Monster called U.S.A Corporation faking as American Nationals. Has any one ever asked, how come U.S.A Cannot Have a National Identification Cards??? Well come on Ask it, and think when you get the answers. The same thing is done in Korea – north and south, Syria, (Iran with little success) Japan, Libya, Tiawan, Ukraine, Poland and many other so-called allies of the Beast System called Democracy

Published time: 7 May, 2019 19:53 Edited time: 7 May, 2019 19:54 Get short URL

Venezuelans suffering water shortages fill bottles at the Wuaraira Repano mountain in front of graffiti saying ‘forbidden’ © AFP / Federico Parra

United States sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Venezuela are illegal under international law, lead to a “denial of basic human rights” and amount to “economic starvation,” a UN rights expert has warned.

Idriss Jazairy, UN special rapporteur on sanctions and human rights, said in a scathing statement on Monday that US efforts at “regime change through economic measures” in countries like Iran, Cuba and Venezuela are “contrary to international law” and have “never been an accepted practice of international relations.”

Serious political differences between governments “must never be resolved by precipitating economic and humanitarian disasters” and “making ordinary people pawns and hostages” to them, the statement said. Also on rt.com Civilians are the real victims (and targets) of Trump’s Venezuela sanctions

Jazairy also challenged the notion that Washington’s current sanctions on Venezuela were “helping” people.

“It is hard to figure out how measures which have the effect of destroying Venezuela’s economy, and preventing Venezuelans from sending home money, can be aimed at ‘helping the Venezuelan people,’ as claimed by the US Treasury.”

The high-level condemnation follows a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), which found that the sanctions have increased hunger and disease, exacerbated the economic crisis and led to the premature deaths of 40,000 Venezuelans between 2017 and 2018.

He also called out Washington’s decision to terminate sanctions waivers for buyers of crude oil from Iran, which harms not only Tehran but its major trading partners.

Jazairy said he was “deeply concerned” that one state, the US, can “use its dominant position in international finance” to directly harm not only the Iranian people but “everyone in the world who trades with them.” Along with ending the waivers, the Trump administration threatened any country continuing to trade with Iran with being slapped with sanctions themselves.

The sanctions on Iran had previously been lifted under the terms of the nuclear deal reached with the US, Russia and other European countries in 2015, but Trump tore up the deal in 2018 and has repeatedly urged European countries to do the same, so far without success.

The UN rights expert also slammed a US law which gives US citizens the right to file lawsuits against foreign companies profiting from properties that Cuba confiscated or nationalized after the 1959 revolution. This ignored protests by the EU and Canada and was “a direct attack” on European and Canadian companies in Cuba, the statement said. Also on rt.com With all eyes on Venezuela, Trump is quietly targeting Cuba

Jazairy called on the international community to challenge the US “blockades” which he said constitute a “threat to world peace and security.” The international community must find peaceful and diplomatic resolutions to their political differences without letting the “arbitrary use of economic starvation become the new ‘normal’,” he added