Human Rights in Iran

Iranian government has one of the most brutal violators of human rights. Oppression of women, religious and ethnic minorities, torture and public executions, use of medieval punishment techniques such as stoning to death and amputations are examples of the horrors Iranians face everyday. At the root, is Iranian government’s fundamentalist ideology. Iran is the only country in the world where this belief system has been tragically incorporated in the form of law and policy in every aspect of society.

For its dismal record, the Islamic extremist government in Iran has been condemned 54 times by the United Nations. The latest U.N. Resolution to was issued in December 2007.

Iranian regime’s oppression of the Iranian people has escalated concomitant with its isolation abroad. Over the past few years, Amnesty International has documented an ever increasing number of executions in Iran. Iranian women’s plight has also largely been ignored by international women’s organizations, in part because of the policy of appeasement pursued by the West.

The appeasement policies have prepared an environment where the dictators in Iran are tolerated and legitimized while the suffering of the oppressed ignored. Reversal of this trend is only possible by recognizing the legitimacy of the Iranian people and their resistance against the extremist government there.