Iran Leader Fails to Deliver on Rights Promises, UN Says
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hasn’t lived up to his campaign pledge to improve human rights, even as he has sought to improve relations with world powers through nuclear negotiations, a Iranian leaders are using the nuclear discussions to show the Islamic Republic’s “positive aspects, as it were” while ignoring human rights issues as a “backwater that people don’t want to talk about,” Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, told reporters in at a breakfast today hosted by non-governmental organizations Shaheed ...
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