TEHRAN- In a letter to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Iran’s Minister of Agriculture warned about the threat to the food security of regional nations posed by American and Zionist aggressors.
According to a report by IRNA from the Ministry of Agriculture, following the continuation of inhumane and brutal acts by the terrorist US army and its allies in the region, and damage to food supply routes and infrastructure, Gholamreza Nouri, the Minister of Agriculture, called on Qu Dongyu, the Director-General of the FAO, to make efforts to help stop these actions by taking a clear and explicit stance and condemning these crimes.
The Minister of Agriculture, recalling the crimes of the Zionists in Gaza, described the silence of international institutions as an encouraging factor for criminals.
The letter from the Minister of Agriculture addressed to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states: On February 28, the military forces of the United States of America and the occupying Israeli regime attacked our country, trampling upon and violating all international laws and treaties.
By martyring a highly revered religious authority and supreme leader, military commanders, as well as over 165 child students in an elementary school, and by bombing and shelling hospitals, schools, public and residential places, and killing innocent people and civilians over the past 10 days, the American and Israeli aggressors have shown that they adhere to no international norm, moral rule, or human principle.
By expanding the scope of the war to the territory of Iran and attacking strategic infrastructure, the American and Israeli aggressors are attempting to disrupt the production, supply, and distribution network of our country’s agricultural and livestock products—a network that provides food security for approximately 90 million people of Iran and supplies part of the needs of around 300 million citizens in the countries of the West Asia and Eurasia regions, who are Iran’s economic and trade partners.
Now, the attack on and destruction of road, air, and sea transport corridors directly targets international treaties concerning the “prohibition of food blockade and threats,” endangering people’s livelihoods, nutrition, health, and family well-being. This is the same behavior that the occupying Israeli regime has engaged in over the past three years with its brutal war and aggression in the Gaza region, committing genocide and crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, the silence of international organizations led to astonishment and protest from awakened consciences and freedom-seekers worldwide.
Currently, the silence, discrimination, and double standards of international organizations and forums in the face of the overt aggression and lawbreaking by American and Israeli aggressors against the Islamic Republic of Iran are also regrettable.
It is expected that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), by taking a clear stance and condemning the aggression against Iran, will issue the necessary warnings through official and legal channels to the instigators of this warmongering regarding its dangerous consequences.
In these critical circumstances, where the fire of war has engulfed the entire West Asia region and the Persian Gulf, it is necessary for the Food and Agriculture Organization to actively play a more effective role in halting the war and mitigating its negative impacts on the production and distribution of agricultural products, businesses, the food industry, trade, and the agricultural economy within regional and global forums.
Concluding the letter with wishes for peace, health, and security for all the people of the world, Nouri wrote: I hope that the ominous shadow of war and aggression does not spread to any part of the world, and that the war-mongers, warmongers, and occupiers lay down their weapons and respect the conventions, treaties, international rules, independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of nations, moving beyond their worn-out polarizations.
MA
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