Tehran, YJC. Cap. Houshang Shahbazi has filed lawsuit against the US for economic sanctions on Iran’s aerospace industry.
He submitted the documents to Tehran’s 55th Branch, Shahid
Beheshti Judicial Complex. Shahabzi’s legal proctor Azam Momeni has drafted the
lawsuit.
"The US has sanctioned Iran to force the country to change
its official line of policy or to prepare the conditions for a regime change;
its unilateral sanctions especially on Iran’s aviation industry including the
ban on selling of plane spare part, and also contract agreements on repair and
maintenance services for Iranian airlines has deprived Iranian citizens of
their international rights,” reads part of the plead, according to Mehr news
agency.
"During recent years, the plane crash as a result of flights
with a very old air fleet (by international standards) has resulted in death of
more than 1500 civilians,” the plead adds.
It adds that the US "sanctions negatively affected the
security and safety of flights, where the main victims of the sanctions and its
overreaching implications are Iranian citizens; the structure of the sanctions
regime is the most revealing example of crime against humanity.”
"The sanctions purportedly seeks to prevent threat to
international peace and security; while governments are bound by commitments
signed by the same countries in international conventions (UN Charter,
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), etc.), and other
rights recognized by international community; the US has, since the Iran’s
Islamic Revolution of 1979, sanctioned the selling of plane parts especially
Boing, which is surprisingly civilian passenger plane,” notes the lawsuit.
"With so many losses of lives during plane crashes in Iran, the sanctions have
gone unnoticed in human rights issues.”
"According to international conventions and documents of
international air transport organizations such as ICAO, no restrictions would
be made against civilian airlines of countries; while the US sanctions violates
these laws and provisions through banning on selling plane parts and services
to Iran.”