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Posted on 07/05/2011 1:29:00 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Iran said Tuesday it plans to try 26 US officials in abstentia for 'violating human rights,' Farsi-news outlet Qods reports. Most nations regard trials in abstentia a violation of a defendent's right to due process.
The move is widely regarded by international observers as posturing on Iran's part aimed at turning the tables on Western nations who have been critical of Tehran's rights record.
Iranian Lawmaker Esmail Kosari told Iranian newspapers Monday the Americans would be tried in absentia and their files passed on to international tribunals. Kosari did not identify the officials, but it is likely they are the same people listed on a parliamentary bill to be subjected to Iranian sanctions.
That list included former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, and military commanders at U.S. detention centers Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
There was no immediate comment Iran's threat of sanctions by US authorities.
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Another example of Media Matters having the same agenda as the Fascist Arabs.
What a great name for Iranian news, Farsi.
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The could have called it Nearsi or Farno.
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