Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described US act to block rendering humanitarian aids to flood-stricken people in Iran as an unprecedented crime.

Addressing a meeting with cabinet members, officials and members of parliament, Rouhani urged the Foreign Ministry and the legal entities to follow up the reason why Iranian residents overseas are not able to send their aids to Iranians inside the country.

Appreciating the efforts made by ministers, provincial governors and other officials as regard recent floods, he said all officials provided 24/7 services to people.

Elsewhere in his remarks, President Rouhani expressed regret over losses inflicted on people and also death of some Iranians in the recent flash floods.

Unfortunately, the US has blocked Red Crescent’s accounts and hampered issuing humanitarian aids from other countries to Iranian flood-stricken people.

As Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi earlier said normally, all banking systems will not be blocked even in difficult and emergency conditions and sending humanitarian aids will be possible through International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The US in an inhumane and cruel approach has blocked all humanitarian assistance to flood-hit people, he added.

Earlier, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer criticized politicizing humanitarian aids, saying sanctions have hindered issuance of assistances.

'Human dignity is disregarded, the applicability of the law is questioned, humanitarian aid is politicized and deliberately hijacked for political gain or to control populations. Terrorist attacks, indiscriminate by nature, are destroying the very notion of proportionality, precaution and distinction, which are at the core of behaviour in combat,' he said addressing the UNSC meeting.

In the meantime, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei stressed the need to give the supreme priority to reconstruction of flood-stricken areas