Iran’s theocratic regime has violently crushed peaceful protests demanding greater religious freedom in the year since the killing of Mahsa Zhina Amini in the custody of the government’s “morality police” last Sept. 16, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in a new report released Tuesday.
As many as 537 Iranians have been killed in protests over the young woman’s death and the Iranian regime’s insistence that women wear a hijab in public, human rights advocates say, according to the USCIRFThe bipartisan federal panel said the United States should take the lead in coordinating “international efforts to counter” the human rights violations perpetrated by Iran’s rulers and the Tehran regime’s “violations of the Iranian people’s right to freedom of religion or belief.
However, Biden administration officials appear headed in a different direction. On Monday, the Associated Press reported Secretary of State Antony Blinken has signed off on a waiver releasing $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets as part of a prisoner swap deal. The money would be transferred from banks in South Korea to institutions in Qatar, the news agency said, and could clear the way for more direct diplomatic engagement between Washington and Tehran on security and other issues.
“State violence in Iran has persisted for decades, but the Iranian government’s most recent actions have reflected particular brutality,” the report said. The Biden administration has defended this week’s deal with Iran, saying it will free five Iranian-Americans held by Tehran and that the Iranian funds being freed from foreign bank accounts can only be used for approved purchases of humanitarian goods. The State Department insisted Monday the U.S. will not ease up on Iran’s record on rights and religious liberties.
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