{"id":16785,"date":"2014-07-08T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T08:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/16785-video-us-must-tackle-human-rights-abuses-in-iran-congressman-royce-demands"},"modified":"2023-01-14T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T20:07:14","slug":"video-us-must-tackle-human-rights-abuses-in-iran-congressman-royce-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/video-us-must-tackle-human-rights-abuses-in-iran-congressman-royce-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: US must tackle human rights abuses in Iran, congressman Royce demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCRI<\/a>– The United States must focus as much on halting human rights abuses in Iran as on nuclear negotiations with the regime, the Chairman of the US House Foreign Relations Committee has demanded.<\/p>\n

Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani is also not a moderate but a ruthless extremist responsible for the summary executions of hundreds of innocent civilians, Ed Royce told a gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 27.<\/p>\n

Mr Royce said in a video message to the conference: “The Iranian regime continues to involve itself in serious human rights abuses on a very large scale.\u00a0 Tehran is on pace to surpass the number of executions without due process from last year. This is under President Rouhani.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think we should remember that this is a man who called on the regime’s Basij militia to \u2018crush mercilessly and monumentally\u2019 the student protesters.\u00a0 More than a dozen students were killed in the protests of 1999, more than a thousand were arrested, and several hundred were tortured.<\/p>\n

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Congressman Ed Royce video message to Paris gathering of Iranians for democratic change<\/div><\/div>
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