News - Middle East: The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs has blasted Washington for claiming to be a defender of human rights while violating that both inside and outside the US.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday on the sidelines of a seminar titled “American human rights; assassination, sanction, and savagery,” Kazem Gharibabadi said that the US has committed the biggest crimes against humanity in history.

“The Americans have committed the biggest crimes against humanity by attacking and occupying different countries,” he said, naming Iraq and Afghanistan as examples.

The US measures in Iraq have claimed the lives of more than 2 million innocent people, including half a million children, he said.

Gharibabadi added that bombs dropped by American drones in seven countries have killed more than 48,000 people.

Pointing to the extensive violation of human rights inside the United States, especially with regard to African-Americans, he noted that some 1,800 women are killed annually in the US while some 4,000 people die inside American prisons every year.

“The US has a dark history of human rights, but introduces itself as its flag bearer,” he stressed, noting that human rights is only a tool for America to pursue its foreign policy goals.