TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kana'ani deplored the US governments’ fake advocacy for human rights, and said supporters of occupation and aggression are not qualified to comment on human rights and democracy.
“There was a time the US was backing the apartheid regime in South Africa, the CIA helped it arrest Mandela,” Kana'ani wrote on his Twitter account on Sunday.
New details being published Monday by TIME appear to strengthen claims that the CIA helped South Africa's racist regime capture anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela in 1962. The report adds to evidence that President John F. Kennedy's administration played a role in Mandela's arrest at a time when US officials were coming to grips with an increasingly intense civil rights movement in America.
Mandela wound up spending 27 years in prison for leading the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed apartheid policies that kept South Africa's Black residents segregated, often in inhumane conditions. He finally was released in 1990 as apartheid crumbled, and was elected South Africa's first Black president in 1994, serving for five years. He died in 2013 at age 95.
“Today, it is a strategic ally and supporter of the apartheid Zionist regime. The US does not deserve to defend human rights and democracy," the spokesperson added.
"It does not believe in them at all,” he stressed.
Iran describes Israel as the root cause of the region’s instability and insecurity, but also stresses Israel's US-supported barbarity will not change the inevitable fate of the Tel Aviv regime.
Tehran says the history of the apartheid regime is full of assassinations, massacre, torture and killing of Palestinian kids, and described Tel Aviv regime's atrocities and massacre of Palestinian women and children as indicative of the destitute of Zionists.
The increased attacks of Israeli soldiers and settlers against the occupied territories have made 2022 the deadliest year for the Palestinians since 2005, according to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The raids have claimed the lives of at least 220 Palestinians, including at least 50 children.
Kana'ani's remarks came after Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated that the Palestinian village of Huwara "needs to be wiped out", adding that he thought "Israel should do it".
It comes after hundreds of armed Israeli settlers attacked Huwara and nearby villages and torched dozens of houses and cars. One Palestinian was killed during the settler rampage and at least 400 others were injured, with Palestinian media reporting stabbings and attacks with metal rods and rocks.
The Israeli regime's forces and settlers have escalated their deadly acts of aggression against the Palestinians since late December 2022, when Benjamin Netanyahu staged a comeback as the regime's prime minister at the head of a cabinet of hard-right and ultra-Orthodox parties.
Since the start of the year, at least 68 Palestinians have been killed as a result of the violence, including five, who were killed by Israeli settlers' gunfire, 13 children, four elderly people, and one prisoner.
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