{"id":26786,"date":"2019-10-22T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/26786-u-s-should-focus-on-iran-s-human-rights-abuses-amb-ken-blackwell"},"modified":"2023-01-21T00:41:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T23:41:10","slug":"u-s-should-focus-on-iran-s-human-rights-abuses-amb-ken-blackwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/u-s-should-focus-on-iran-s-human-rights-abuses-amb-ken-blackwell\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Should Focus on Iran\u2019s Human Rights Abuses &#8211; Amb Ken Blackwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-54187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Ken_Blackwell.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Kenneth Blackwell former US Ambassador to the United Nations\" title=\"Ken Blackwell\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ken_Blackwell.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ken_Blackwell-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ken_Blackwell-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ken_Blackwell-696x398.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<p>Iran\u2019s regime is becoming ever more brazen in its foreign policy, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently attacking commercial vessels in the Gulf, and seizing others,  and the families of those massacred are still being persecuted. Despite passage of 31 years, they still do not know where their loved ones are buried.       <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FnzTnVG2Ro\">https:\/\/t.co\/FnzTnVG2Ro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oHHaBcrUSZ\">pic.twitter.com\/oHHaBcrUSZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1167439147243646981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe U.S. should clearly send a message that Iranian officials are not immune from their wrongdoing. The Iranian people will see that the world supports them as never before and will\u00a0rise up\u00a0to demand, once and for all, a new, democratic government. The American administration needs to bring Tehran&#8217;s human rights violations into focus to force the regime to rethink its aggression,\u201d Amb Blackwell concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Ambassador Ken Blackwell was mayor of Cincinnati, Treasurer and Secretary of State for Ohio, undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&rsquo;s regime is becoming ever more brazen in its foreign policy, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently attacking commercial vessels in the Gulf, and seizing others, and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":54187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-26786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Should Focus on Iran\u2019s Human Rights Abuses - Amb Ken Blackwell - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran\u2019s regime is becoming ever more brazen in its foreign policy, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently attacking commercial vessels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/u-s-should-focus-on-iran-s-human-rights-abuses-amb-ken-blackwell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.S. Should Focus on Iran\u2019s Human Rights Abuses - Amb Ken Blackwell - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran\u2019s regime is becoming ever more brazen in its foreign policy, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently attacking commercial vessels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/u-s-should-focus-on-iran-s-human-rights-abuses-amb-ken-blackwell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-22T10:17:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-20T23:41:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ken_Blackwell.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"457\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansoureh Galestan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansoureh Galestan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/human-rights\\\/u-s-should-focus-on-iran-s-human-rights-abuses-amb-ken-blackwell\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/news\\\/human-rights\\\/u-s-should-focus-on-iran-s-human-rights-abuses-amb-ken-blackwell\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mansoureh Galestan\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4039d83ce2c628eef0e1a1f461381ab9\"},\"headline\":\"U.S. Should Focus on Iran\u2019s Human Rights Abuses &#8211; 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