The US Presidential Administration Joe Biden promised to hold Iran accountable for “egregious human rights violations,” said the deputy official representative of the State Department Vedante Patel, commenting on information about the death sentence to an Iranian-British citizen, former Minister of Defense Iri Alireze Akbari.
“accusations against Akbari alires were politically motivated,” Patel said at a daily briefing.
“We are very concerned about the reports that Mr. Akbari was pumped with drugs, tortured during detention, interrogated for a thousand hours and forced to give false confessions,” he said.
to the question of the Turan agency, whether Washington has any tools to stop such behavior of the Iranian regime, Patel said that the administration took steps to hold the Iranian regime liable, and “we will continue to do this in close cooperation with our allies and partners “.
to the question of whether the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic needs to be punished for gross violations of human rights, Patel did not directly answer, repeating that Washington “would continue to do everything in his power in order to hold the Iranian regime for glaring violations of human rights , for the murder of their own people. “