Member of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Guardian Council Hadi Tahan Nazif has written in a memo titled “Hollow Drum of Sanctions” that the lack of legitimacy in the international relations system has caused emergence of unilateral sanction regimes by certain governments, which challenges many accepted norms.
Given the fact that a government cannot pursue imposition of unilateral sanction on another government at the international level, the Canadian government imposed some sanctions on Iranian individuals and entities based on its own internal laws, which target even the Iranian Guardian Council and a number of its members.
The recent sanctions indicate that the Canadian government not only supports the unrest in Iran but also intervenes in Iranian internal affairs, he said, adding that such measures can be reacted by filing lawsuits at the United Nations and other international communities as part of Tehran’s diplomatic reaction to the move.
The diplomatic response can end up in a legal effort at the ultra-national level in order to nullify the legal effects of the measure of the Canadian government, he added.
Facts and figures on the ground show that the United States’ long-run sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran have borne no fruit for Washington, so the Canadian act would be fruitless, the Iranian official argued, adding that because numerous entities and individuals of the Islamic establishment have been under US’s sanction regime, the new embargo merely implies an outdated policy.
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