Wizdom
09-11-08, 19:28
Iran diplomats suffer US torture: Witness
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:14:03 GMT
Al-Sheibani says US forces tortured Iranian diplomats.
A spokesman for the Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says he has witnessed the torture and abuse of Iranian diplomats by US forces.
“During my detention by US forces, I was held in confinement along with three Iranian diplomats and witnessed their torture by Americans,” Ahmed al-Sheibani told Fars News Agency.
According to al-Sheibani, one Iranian diplomat named Mousa, was severely beaten and had his arm broken by American forces using torture methods. The face of a second diplomat, whose name was Abbas, was badly bruised after receiving a heavy blow to his eye.
American forces raided the Iranian consulate in Iraq's Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq on January 11, 2007, detaining three Iranian diplomats.
US and British forces in Iraq have carried out several other violent and illegal actions against Iranian diplomats in the war-ravaged country.
The US military later justified the aggression, claiming that its forces had conducted “routine security operations” in the area.
Iran immediately lodged a protest at the United Nations against the detainment, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the Iranian diplomats from US custody.
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:14:03 GMT
Al-Sheibani says US forces tortured Iranian diplomats.
A spokesman for the Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says he has witnessed the torture and abuse of Iranian diplomats by US forces.
“During my detention by US forces, I was held in confinement along with three Iranian diplomats and witnessed their torture by Americans,” Ahmed al-Sheibani told Fars News Agency.
According to al-Sheibani, one Iranian diplomat named Mousa, was severely beaten and had his arm broken by American forces using torture methods. The face of a second diplomat, whose name was Abbas, was badly bruised after receiving a heavy blow to his eye.
American forces raided the Iranian consulate in Iraq's Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq on January 11, 2007, detaining three Iranian diplomats.
US and British forces in Iraq have carried out several other violent and illegal actions against Iranian diplomats in the war-ravaged country.
The US military later justified the aggression, claiming that its forces had conducted “routine security operations” in the area.
Iran immediately lodged a protest at the United Nations against the detainment, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the Iranian diplomats from US custody.