I am going to post one common response to all the comments who say that this deal is bad because Iran has sponsored terrorists is not really a full democracy (the shah). it was explained in my essay above, but you do not seem to understand.the only reason why the people and countries who support terrorism do is because they are marginalized and desperate.A starving person living in their tiny hovel in the slums of Iran isn't going to worry about the quasi-dictatorship countries. all they care about is surviving, and when they hear that more sanctions have been put on Iran, it makes them hate the west.the only way to stop terrorism is to address its root causes by helping the desperate people most likely to become terroristswith the exception of ISIS, which is a special case).Iran is not a nation of radical religious zealots. these people are just as capable of rationality as any of us, and by NOT driving them to terrorism, we will (obviously) reduce terrorism. Content people do dot sign up to suicide bomb innocents. also, by allowing Iran to become a member of the global community, it has no reason to fund terrorist groups. Countries do this to have be heard when they are ignored and marginalized. You must think more deeply about the problem. Further punishing the Iranian people will only make more terrorists. In addition, if the Iranian people are allowed to join the global community, they will most likely attempt to change the government, separating it from religion. at the moment, that is not the most important issue for most Iranians. let go of your old, comfortable "us vs. them" mentality and realize that the issue is much more complex than that.
Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Reported abuses falling outside of the laws of the Islamic Republic that have been condemned include
the execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988, and the widespread use of torture to extract repudiations by prisoners of their cause and comrades on video for propaganda purposes.
[3] Also condemned has been firebombings of newspaper offices and attacks on political protesters by "quasi-official organs of repression," particularly "
Hezbollahi," and the
murder of dozens of government opponents in the 1990s, allegedly by "rogue elements" of the government.
Under the administration of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s human rights record "has deteriorated markedly," according to
Human Rights Watch,
[4] and following
the 2009 election protests there were reports of killing of demonstrators, the torture, rape and killing of detained protesters,
[5][6] and the arrest and publicized mass trials of dozens of prominent opposition figures in which defendants "read confessions that bore every sign of being coerced."
[7][8][9] In October 2012 the United Nations human rights office stated Iranian authorities had engaged in a “severe clampdown” on journalists and human rights advocates.
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Chain murders of Iran - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
The
Chain Murders of Iran[1][2] (قتلهای زنجیره ای), or
Serial Murders, were a series of murders and disappearances from 1988 to 1998 by Iranian government operatives of Iranian dissident intellectuals
[3][4] who had been critical of the Islamic Republic system in some way.
[5]
The victims included more than 80 writers, translators, poets, political activists, and ordinary citizens,
[6][7] and were killed by a variety of means—car crashes, stabbings, shootings in staged robberies, injections with potassium to simulate a heart attack—in what some believe was an attempt to avoid connection between them.
[8] The pattern of murders did not come to light until late 1998 when
Dariush Forouhar, his wife
Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, and three dissident writers, were murdered in the span of two months.
[9]
, now you have me rambling.
