TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) -- The Iranian Parliament released a list of 26 US officials wanted by Tehran for various crimes, including rights violations and acts of terror, Press TV reported on Sunday.
The officials on the list include former FBI chief Thomas J. Pickard, who is wanted for human rights violations during his tenure as the CIA station chief in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003, and the former commander of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Geoffrey D. Miller, who is charged with torture of inmates.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is also on the list for the killing of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition, USS Vincennes Captain Will Rogers III will have sanctions imposed on him over the killing of 290 Iranian civilians onboard Iran Air Flight 655, which was shot down by the USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988.
Paul Bremer, the US administrator in Iraq from May 2003 to June 2004, and General Tommy Franks, who led the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are also on the list of US officials that the Iranian parliament plans to impose sanctions on.
According to the spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Kazem Jalali, the motion to impose sanctions on and prosecute certain American officials was unanimously adopted.
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by BNO News on May 29, 2011