U.S. has imposed sanctions on Iran based on human rights abuses

[Solly Mack]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who announced the sanctions with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, accused the men of ordering the arbitrary arrest, beating, torture, rape, blackmail, and killing of Iranian citizens in the violent crackdown after the June 2009 election.

[EFerrari]

1. Embarrassing. n/t

[Solly Mack]

2. I'm sure Iran has some

torture "good faith" memos of their own.

[kctim]

3. Good

and good job HRC!

[Solly Mack]

4. It's certainly never a bad thing to hold any and all people accountable for torture

and assorted other human rights abuses.

[lamp_shade]

5. Excellent news.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yes. People who torture should always be held accountable..

[piratefish08]

11. isn't it ironic,

dontcha think?


Torturers should ALWAYS be held accountable for their actions. Always. No exceptions to the rule.

How could anyone disagree with this?

[Solly Mack]

14. I agree. How could anyone disagree with that....

[spanone]

20. may i add, ALL people who torture should be held accountable

whether they live in iran or the united states

[deaniac21]

7. It is a shame she had nothing to say while the crackdown was

in progress.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. What could she have said that wouldn't have made things worse?

Allowing the Iranian opposition to be tarred as "American-backed" did not (and does not) seem to me to be likely to help them.

[deaniac21]

10. Your opinion. They where screaming out to the world for help

and only heard crickets.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

13. What would you have liked to have seen done/said that wasn't?

I fully agree, doing nothing was not a good option, but unless you can come up with a better one then I'll continue to think it was the right thing to do.

[deaniac21]

15. I think mentioning that the US believes in freedom of speech would

have been nice.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

16. Do you think it would have helped the Iranian opposition more than it hindered them?

"Would have been nice" is a slightly different claim, I think.

[deaniac21]

19. Absolutely. It would have given them hope. They couldn't

have been 'hindered' any more than what was already happening.

[Chulanowa]

8. n/t

[howard112211]

12. What a joke. After Hillary turns herself over to the hague for authorizing the Iraq war

she might have a drop of credibility again.

[lib2DaBone]

17. Stinky Pant-Suit Hillary... what has she done for peace lately?

[TexasObserver]

18. It's deserved, but meanwhile, we should tend our own rights abuses.

While rightwingers actually plot overthrow of our government, stockpile weapons, and talk sedition, our government goes after peace advocates.

In the past decade, we have lost our standing to talk to any country about human rights.

[Odin2005]

21. We have no moral authority to lecture other countries on human rights.