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If true to their creed, Human right organizations and Western countries' domestic courts should step in and do their best to impede international criminals like @SecPompeo from (re)gaining power in the U.S:

1) Before Trump's withdrawal from #Iran's nuclear agreement ( #JCPOA), the "Gamma knife Centre in Iran" had managed - over the course of a decade - to treat more than 10,000 brain tumor patients by using advanced radiosurgery technology.

2)The non-invasive methods used at this centre allowed Iranian radiotherapists and oncologists to accurately identify the locations of eligible head and neck cancerous tumors and target them with gamma rays...

....saving 1000s of lives with minimal side-effects in the process - at a cost largely covered by Iran's national healthcare system.

3) Today, as U.S sanctions impede the import of the "cobalt" resources needed to run the equipment, the treatment is effectively discontinued and thousands of Iranian patients are left with few alternative options:

4) Those eligible for open surgery (and only those) can opt for invasive craniotomies with all the risks of mortality, morbidity and cognitive impairment associated with such procedures.

5) Others may wish to seek treatment at the closest centre offering the same medical service in the region (Turkey) but at a cost of about $10,000 to $15,000.

6) Assuming generously that an average middle-class Iranian employee would make 50M Toman (Iran's currency) a year - and considering the sharp devaluation of Iran's currency against the dollar as a result of U.S illegal sanctions (1 Dollar = 25,000 T) -

...this means that the alternative treatment in Turkey would cost the average middle-class Iranian patient at least the equivalent of 5 years of his/her annual salary.

7) The so-called Iran "hawks" in Washington, shady organizations such as the FDD and their mouthpieces in the U.S media may attempt to spin and whitewash this crime (or even boast about it) in any way they want, but the truth is that today...

...- thanks to the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" policy - thousands of Iranian brain tumor patients are practically left with NO real treatment options.

8) And this is just a mild example illustrating the U.S-made silent slaughter that is going on in Iran.

9) The sad part is that the perpetrators of these high crimes - Trump, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Brian Hook & their clique in so-called "think tanks" - are not even facing soft calls for accountability over this rampage...let alone some sort of charge or indictment before a judicial forum

10) Rather - while brazenly boasting about their criminal record on Iran to gain the favors of particular lobbies - they're running for re-election, aspiring to higher jobs or positioning themselves to run for president in 2024.

11) The sadder part is that the international community cannot count on the American public to pull their reins or quell their aspirations either.

12) The American public opinion is just too indoctrinated, too resentful of international norms, too distant and too alienated from the realities of this world to make the right calls when it comes to assessing the foreign-policy records of its politicians or picking its leaders.

13) In fact, "stage performance" & shallow criteria - such as a candidate's physical features or (lately) his ability to memorize 5 words in order - could turn out to be much more of a "determining factor" to the outcome of US elections than any real important substantial issue.

14) Likewise, U.S allies and Western governments and officials are either too complicit or often just too feckless to take a firm stance when faced with their American counterparts' commission of war crimes or broader crimes against humanity.

15) Inter-state organizations - such as the UN or the ICC - are also either too weak, too intimidated, too structurally deficient or too dependent on U.S funds to have a real impact on U.S behavior on the world stage.

16) So in practice the only gleam of hope against the perpetrators of these high Int'l crimes are civil societies, specialized non-governmental organizations operating in the field of Human Rights and genuinely "independent" judiciary branches of some (mostly) Western countries..

... who've shown some level of commitment to their creed in the past.

17) In fact, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) have on their record the filing of a criminal complaint...

...with the Paris Prosecutor against Donald Rumsfeld for his alleged role in ordering and authorizing torture of war detainees in violation of fundamental norms of International Humanitarian Law.

18) Predictably, their effort didn't result in a trial or conviction of Rumsfeld but it did at least prompt the former U.S Secretary of Defense to flee France from the backdoor of his hotel before having a chance to attend his scheduled breakfast with high French officials!

19) Other former American and non-American politicians have also faced the wrath of principled European judges that have - in a courageous display of judicial independence - issued indictments & arrest warrants against them in response to information & complaints filed by HR orgs

20) All legal technicalities aside, there is really no reason today why these organizations should not put in the same effort to obtain orders against the likes of Trump, Pompeo and Brian Hook for the economic terrorism or illegal "sanctions" they have waged on the Iranian people

... in violation of the nuclear accord (JCPOA), a binding Security Council resolution and all other relevant norms of general, human rights and criminal international law.

21) By stepping in, these organizations could not only draw attention to the humanitarian carnage caused by U.S sanctions on Iran (which Trump administration officials brazenly call the worst sanctions in History) but they could have a real impact on the career plans of admitted

... criminals like Mike Pompeo and maybe a psychological and (who's to say) even a legal impact on the course of the upcoming U.S elections to the benefit of - not another political party but - Universal norms of human rights.