Iran’s Judiciary Chief Condemns CIA Torture Program

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani deplored the CIA torture program as a free fall of ethical values in the American society.
“The scandal in the US and the report presented to the Senate on the tortures and the US officials’ statements that they are proud of it displays the fall of ethics,” Amoli Larijani said, addressing a students gathering at the University of Judicial Sciences in Tehran on Tuesday.

“We have seen a lot of such cases in the US and Britain like the war in Iraq in which thousands of innocent people were killed under the pretext of finding nuclear weapons or the person who had surrendered to the US police, but was shot dead, and the police were exonerated in the case,” he added.

Amoli Larijani questioned the efficiency of the US laws when they exonerate a guilty police officer.

His remarks came after the US Senate Intelligence Committee report showed that the CIA’s rendition, interrogation, and detention programs were even more nightmarish than you could imagine.

Interrogations that lasted for days on end; detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep. A prison so cold, one suspect essentially froze to death.

On Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham condemned the human rights violations by the CIA.

“The Late confession of US Senate to inhuman and catastrophic tortures against security suspects is an obvious sign of breaching the human rights on phony security pretexts,” Afkham said.

“The contents of that shocking report reveal the undercover, aggressive, extremist nature of the American security apparatus that has become a part of its character,” she added.

Afkham said that the worrisome aspect of the matter is that those illegal and inhumane methods and the mentioned samples of behaviors in the report are still being practiced by the US security bodies and the American administration has not guaranteed to prevent the occurrence of such catastrophes from now on.

“A noticeable number of foreign countries’ citizens have been subjected to torture and it is expected that revealing of those acts will be the beginning of legal pursuance of those who have ordered and those who have implemented those criminal acts at the international scene,” she said.