More on Human Rights Abuses in Iran

Read and weep. The comments to the story, it should be said, are almost as bad as the actual story–filled with people who stupidly try to claim that there is no difference between the human rights record of the United States government, and that of the Islamic regime in Iran. The overwhelming majority of Iranians, of course, would prefer to live under the a system of government more like the one we have here in the United States than the one that is found in their own country.

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