The continued house arrest of Mousavi and Karroubi highlight the “great divide” in Iranian politics, whereby President Hassan Rouhani is able to advance his non-confrontational foreign policy in nuclear negotiations but finds himself at pains to make advances in domestic politics. Iran’s less than stellar performance before the United Nations Human Rights Council, led by Supreme Council for Human Rights secretary Mohammad-Javad Larijani, during the periodical review this past 31 October 2014 highlights the country’s deteriorating human rights situation. This deterioration under President Hassan Rouhani, who made improvements in the area of human rights a key plank of his campaign, has been repeatedly noted on our website as […]
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