Biden Administration Turns a Blind Eye to Iranian Regime's Brutal Crackdown
by Majid Rafizadeh • December 3, 2022 at 5:00 am
The Biden administration appears to be repeating Obama administration's policy of choosing to be silent in the face of the Iranian regime's bloodshed, human rights violations, and crackdowns that kill and wound peaceful protesters -- and has the same policy regarding brave Chinese protestors as well.
One hospital staff member wrote in a message to CNN about a female detainee: "When she first came in, [the officers] said she was hemorrhaging from her rectum... due to repeated rape. The plainclothes men insisted that the doctor write it as rape prior to arrest...." -- CNN Special Report, "How Iran's security forces use rape to quell protests," November 21, 2022.
Will the Biden administration ever stop appeasing the regime of Iran, called by the US Department of State "the world's worst state sponsor of terrorism"?
Will the Biden administration ever start standing with Iranian -- and Chinese, Brazilian and Venezuelan -- men and women asking only for what we purport to care about -- liberty and freedom -- but who suffer brutality and suppression from their own governments?
When millions of citizens poured into the streets of Iran in June 2009 to protest against the country's regime, the Obama administration was silent as many people in Iran cried out, "Are you with us, or are you with them [the ruling mullahs]?" Now, the Biden administration appears to be repeating Obama administration's policy of choosing to be silent in the face of the Iranian regime's bloodshed, human rights violations, and crackdowns that kill and wound peaceful protesters -- and has the same policy regarding brave Chinese protestors as well.
More than 2,000 academics from universities across the United States, including 10 Nobel laureates, signed a letter to President Joe Biden calling for "urgent attention to a dire situation in Iranian universities," and taking "further tangible actions." These include ending diplomacy, ending nuclear talks, and continuing punitive sanctions "until all violators of human rights in Iran are held accountable."
