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NCRI – The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce has voiced his concern over the Obama administrations negotiations with Iran as the latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights noted a surge in executions in Iran over the past year.
According to the report by Dr. Ahmad Shaheed over the past 12-15 months, coinciding with the time that Hassan Rouhani has been in office \u201cAt least 852 individuals were executed in the period since June of last year, including eight juveniles,\u201d the investigator said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also noted a widening of the range of offenses for which people are being put to death, including economic crimes as well as in some cases, clear political activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Representative Royce called the report \u201cdeeply troubling\u201d says Obama should be cautious when negotiating with the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n
Chairman Royce said in a statement: \u201cWhile deeply troubling, this UN human rights report does not come as a surprise. Under \u2018reformist\u2019 President Rouhani, the Iranian regime continues to commit grave human rights abuses against the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe regime\u2019s response to the recent acid attacks on Iranian women is appalling but not surprising. When a number of young women such as 27-year old Neda were blinded by acid thrown from men on motorcycles, the regime responded to popular protests by detaining a prominent female human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and passing a law that could incite, rather than discourage, similar heinous attacks. I fear that Iran\u2019s Basij militia will see this new law as an even more liberal license to attack Iranian women for how they are dressed. Hopefully Iranian society will step up to these acts of cowardice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Obama Administration should keep these abuses in mind when negotiating with the Iranian regime \u2014 it is difficult, if not impossible, to believe that the regime would be a peaceful nuclear power when it behaves so violently towards its own citizens. Common sense says we must be intensely skeptical of Iran\u2019s intentions,\u201d chairman Royce concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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