UN Special Rapporteur on the unilateral impact of unilateral coercion measures on human rights, Belarus’s international law professor Alena Daugan, said she saw the “catastrophic” effects of US sanctions on Iran in the Islamic Republic.
This was the first visit of a UN Special Rapporteur to Iran since 2005 and the first visit of a Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercion, a post created in 2014 by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Ms. Daugan, former director of the Belarus State University Peace Study Center, met during her visit (May 7-18) with government officials, representatives of civil society, and public health officials. and executives of financial institutions.
“During this visit, we were able to see the devastating humanitarian consequences,” Ms. Daugan told a news conference in the Iranian capital.
“The measures imposed on Iran violate international law, are illegal,” the rapporteur said, adding that the right thing to do was to “lift the sanctions”.
But “unfortunately, to be realistic, I do not think they will be lifted next month”, he hastened to add.
The major powers and Tehran have been negotiating in Vienna for the past year with a view to overturning the 2015 agreement on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, formally the Joint Integrated Action Plan (JAP). The deal was called into question in 2018, during the days of Donald Trump in the White House, when the US unilaterally withdrew from it and again imposed suffocating economic sanctions on Iran, leading it in retaliation to start violating its commitments.
Ms. Daugan’s visit was recorded against the backdrop of protests in Iran over inflation, in part due to US sanctions.
“I am aware that no (special rapporteur) has visited Iran in the last 17 years and I hope that my visit will not be the last,” said the Belarusian special rapporteur, assuring, without elaborating, that Tehran “works with the UN to develop a program” of visits.
Her final report will be presented to the Human Rights Council in September.
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