President Obama’s inaction and indifference!

9 prisoners in Shiraz and Arak prison were executed and hanged on Tuesday, May 19, 2015.

Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran; presented his report on human rights situation in Iran to U.N human rights council. According to this report 753 were executed in Iran during 2014. Only in first 10 weeks of 2015 also 252 were hanged. Also at least 13 prisoners under 18 were executed during 2014.The majority of these individuals were condemned to death, while they did not deserve such a punishment since their crime was not as hardcore according to international laws.

Six U.S. senators (Ted Cruz, Mike Enzi, Johnny Isakson, Mark Kirk, David Perdue, and Marco Rubio) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, saying: “We write to express strong concern over the ongoing postponement of the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, in particular the Iran Human Rights Report. As you are aware, the Department of State is required by law to issue this report every year in a timely manner. Yet after missing the February 25, 2015 deadline, the Department of State announced on April 16th that there would be a further delay. More than two weeks have now passed, and we still have no indication of when this critical document will be available.

In the context of the Obama Administration's ongoing negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran over that country's nuclear program, we believe it is imperative this report be published as quickly as possible. Although we appreciate your guarantee that human rights sanctions will be exempt from a list of phased-out sanctions in any final deal with Iran, we are concerned the Obama Administration is failing to recognize the inherentdanger of engaging in nuclear negotiations with this particular regime given their appalling record on human rights. That is why we are so eager for this report as it would, for example, be of particular interest to see if the disturbing increase in human rights abuses under President Hassan Rouhani is a continuing trend over the last twelve months……”