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Amanpour viewers appreciated the interview with the Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, who fiercely defended his country's record on human rights. A controversial debate about this interview unleashed among most viewers with one common thought about Mr. Larijani’s words; deceit. The majority felt his statements throughout the exchange with Amanpour were incorrect and Iran “lacked democracy and human rights.”
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Interview with Sec. Gen. of the Iran’s Council for Human Rights
Mutimba Mazwi
Sec. Gen. of the Iran’s Council for Human Rights?? So Iran even has rights to talk about! Surprising:)
Osy Nkemakolam
If what Iran has is democracy then am sorry for UN, how can a member nation like Iran with a lot of government crackdown will say they have democracy?
Bardia Mashhoodi
I saw your program last night, as an Iranian I really suppose you to put this guy in trouble more. more than this comment of him I was surprised by his huge lies about prisoners, execution penalty and governmental violence against protesters.
Christopher Marotta
Iran's President is illegitimate. Its government shoots its own citizens who oppose dictatorial rule. We Americans stand firmly behind Iran's young people who yearn to be free. We long to bring peace and freedom to the people of Iran, just as we brought freedom to the people of Iraq.
Didi Bello
I watched this interview and I concluded that just like a lot of countries, Iran leads by double standards. How can Mr Larijani talk of supporting human rights with the sort of vicious crackdown on freedom of speech and expression going on in Iran? Mr Larijani needs to evaluate Iran's stance on Human Rights.
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Well, the USA could be brought up as a parallel to Iran, due to the imprisonment of journalists and peace protesters, etc. But not only does the USA have very bad prison conditions on the mainland USA, it also has very bad conditions and ignores human rights in prisons around the world -even to having secret prisons.
Most policemen are stand-up fellows but the cruelty to the innocent, the disabled, the vulnerable, protesters, environmentalists and immigrants by many of the policemen & those enforcing "national security" does not follow any rule of human rights.
Certainly there is the question of whether or not the USA is a democracy. Most will be familiar with the shenanigans which placed Cheney & W. Bush in the White House. Recently there is the Supreme Court decision to recognize corporations as having the same rights as a citizen(a human being) under the law.
As for the nuclear situation – clearly the USA has nuclear weapon capabilities whereas Iran doctors are desperate for the small amount of the substance they need for their hospitals.
It's important to realize the military superpower of world is often blaming Iran for exactly the things the military super power is doing without moral or ethical consideration.
When standing back and observing the situation as a global problem the problem of a possible preemptive strike on Iran looks quite differently; possible in a way more realistic to address and find a solution.
I listened to your interview with Mr. Larijani, and am really diappointed with your accusations throw against Iran in regard to their human rights record. There is no doubt that Iran has executed a number of the enemies of Iran who tried to destabilize the country. I just want to point out a simple fact that the terrorist bands of Mariam Rajavi would not be able to exist for more than a few days without the the enormous aid they are receiving from Israel and US. They are simply paid to cause demonstrations and cause trouble in Iran.
Also, compared to the horrific human rights abuses by state of Israel, Iran is really taking a back seat in this endevour. Just few days ago Israelis have sent 11 agents in order to murder the Palestinian leader in Dubai, to say nothing about the medieval tortures that many thousands of Palestinians are facing in the Israeli dungeons every single days, including hundreds of Palestinian women and children. So since it is the subject of human rights abuses that you are interested in for Heaven's sake look no further than the state of Israel, and then if you still have energy for searching for human rights abuses go to Iran!
I saw your interview Mr. Larijani, today. When it comes to Iranian human rights abuses, I thought persecution of members of the Baha'i religion would come up. This is one of the most blatant abuses towards Iran's largest non-Muslim religious minority. Moreover, other religious minorities are coming under increasing pressure.
The 7 Baha'i leaders have been held in Iran's notorious Evin Prison for more than 2 years and recently many more Baha'is are being rounded up and put in prison. They are being used at scape-goats by the IRI.
Concern for the Baha'is was brought up by many countries at the UN as part of this past week's Iran human rights discussion.
Dear Ms. Amanpour
I read your interview with Mr. Larijani and am afraid to say that once again another well known journalist was played by an Iranian high ranking official in his own game.
I certainly have expected much more from you than let's say John Suchet of UK channel four or Larry King who went dumb when interviewing Ahmadinejad.
Please please do your research before you even ask for an interview with someone as shrewd as M. J. Larijani.
You probably know that out of the three Larijani borthers in power, he is the one who has the final say in almost all the country's internal and foreign affairs.
You should have known better that he had many of the answers to your questions ready before you even asked them. I would have expected from someone like you who are closer to Iran by profession and personally, to be more prepared and had some new questions for him. Questions to take him by surprise.
You had only needed to contact some recently exiled Iranian journalists or activists to find out about the issues and questions to which Mr. Larijani would have been very reluctant to answer in such a high profile interview. I know that it was all about human rights but you were clever enough to find a way to nail him where you wanted.
You could have asked him about issues like the ruined economy, the real impact of years of sanction on real lives, the inflation, the unemployment, the ruined agriculture, the thousands of closed factories, the billions and billions of import compared to a tiny amount of export, the billions of oil money that went missing, the money spent on financing the recruitment of thousands of riot police and the equipments that have been used to opress the protesters, the condition of the country's roads, rail network , aviation, the condition of the country's health service, the devastating corruption in all levels of public sectors, the addiction of millions of youngsters, the monopoly of sepah and a handfull of the clergies and Ahmadinejad's suppoeters of the majority of the country's indusry and import/export activities including oil, sugar, fruit, and of course the transport of millions worth of drugs from our eastern neighbours to the west being faciliated by sepah, the deepening poverty among middle class and lower middle class families, and hundreds of these vital issues that are so close to people's everyday lives. One question you could have asked Larijani was to ask him to name the basijis who he claimed have been killed in the riots .
Dear Ms. Amanpour,
I was truly disappointed by your interview with MJ Larijani. I expected a tougher interview by someone who spent years in war torn Sarajevo and confronted Bill Clinton with his lack of action in helping the Bosnian people.
As a proud Iranian and a long-time fan, I expected you to be ready to confront Larijani with his claim that Iran is the most democratic country in the Middle East.
I know you don't believe him, so why couldn't you show him a sample of numerous video clips and reports of beatings of Iranian mothers and grandmothers on the streets of Iran? If they are so democratic, why do they oppose the peaceful gathering of Green protestors?
By conducting these short one-sided interviews, you are only legitimizing a dictatorship in disguise.
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