NCRI – A number of US Senators have urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to formally brand the Iranian regime’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and 25 other current and former mullahs’ officials as human rights abusers, according to AFP.
The mullahs’ President Ahmadinejad should be designated “as an Iranian human rights abuser,” the Senators told Mrs. Clinton in a letter. The signatories included Republican Senators Mark Kirk and Jon Kyl, Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, AFP said.
The lawmakers pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s comments during a March 2 Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, that there was “certainly evidence” that the Iranian regime’s officials, including Ahmadinejad, abused human rights.
The senators also noted that the European Union had designated 32 current or former Iranian regime officials as rights abusers, and that the United States has only done the same for seven of the people on that list, AFP reported.
“Therefore, we urge you to immediately investigate for possible designation as human rights abusers the following 25 individuals listed by the European Union as Iranian human rights abusers,” they said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.
