24 May 2011 - 19:30

The IRI Parliament will impose sanctions on 26 US officials, including former defense and intelligence chiefs, for their involvement in the killing of civilians and the torture of suspects in US-run prisons.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - MP Kazem Jalali, the spokesman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Tuesday that the committee has drawn up a list of US officials to be sanctioned for human rights violations.

The officials on the list include commander of US forces in Iraq Raymond Odierno, USS Vincennes Captain Will Rogers III, former FBI chief Thomas J. Pickard, and the former commander of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Geoffrey D. Miller, Jalali said.

Current Guantanamo commander Rear Admiral Jeffery Harbeson, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and another US military official will also be sanctioned by Tehran, the Iranian MP added.

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