TEHRAN
\nThe spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry lashed out at the US for issuing sanctions against Francesca Albanese, who serves as the United Nations\u2019 special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.
\n\u201cTruth cannot be suppressed by sanctions,\u201d Spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baqaei said in a post on his X account on Friday following the US State Department\u2019s decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, an Italian independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories.
\n\u201cFrancesca Albanese is bullied and sanctioned for telling the truth & for standing up against genocide, occupation and apartheid,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cMeanwhile, Netanyahu, a court-certified war criminal, gets a red carpet in D.C.\u201d the Iranian spokesman noted.
\n\u201cYour bare hypocrisy is on full display and the world is watching,\u201d Baqaei told the American officials.
\nThe Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it was issuing sanctions against Albanese, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel\u2019s 21-month war in Gaza.
\nThe State Department\u2019s decision to impose sanctions on the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza follows an unsuccessful US pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post.
\nAlbanese, an Italian human rights lawyer, has been vocal about what she has described as the \u201cgenocide\u201d by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza.
\nSpeaking to Al Jazeera on Thursday, Albanese said she would not be cowed into silence by the US move against her.
\nAlbanese stressed that the penalties imposed by the US administration would not stop her \u201cquest for (the) respect of justice and international law\u201d.
\nThe special rapporteur said Washington\u2019s tactics reminded her of \u201cMafia intimidation techniques\u201d before suggesting that \u201csanctions will only work if people are scared and stop engaging\u201d.
\nLast week, she released a report mapping the corporations aiding Israel in the displacement of Palestinians and its genocidal war on Gaza in breach of international law.
\nThe Israeli regime\u2019s campaign in Gaza has destroyed most of the territory and killed more than 57,575 Palestinians over the past 21 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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