Tehran, YJC. Official says Iran has devised mechanisms to legally pursue violations to citizens’ rights committed by foreigners.
Deputy Chairman of the Martyrs and Veterans Foundation in Legal and Parliamentary Affairs said "According to the rule obliging the government to pursue and redeem the rights of Iranian citizens suffering damage by foreign governments, especially those by the US, on May 24 the President issued an order where the Vice President in Legal Affairs will file suits against the US in cooperation with the Martyrs Foundation.”
Faqihi said "The Martyrs Foundation intends to support
chemical warfare veterans and help them file suits. We have got more than 70
thousand chemical warfare veterans from the Iran-Iraq war whose bodily and mental
symptoms grow worse and worse every day; symptoms which will also get through
to the veterans’ next generations. One will not go too far to say that there is
no crime by the Ba’ath regime as harsh, heavy, and painful as the chemical one
against the war veterans. It is a duty for us to do take resolute action
against such a deed. The legal nature of the job has been recognized by
international law. In the same way that local US courts are allowed to attend
to cases against Iran, our likewise action as a sort of retaliation is legally conceivable
worldwide. The least outcome of this action would be to prove once more the
rightfulness of our chemical warfare veterans on the international legal arena.”
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