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Source: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/lifting-human-rights-sanctions-iran-would-be-mistake-201157
Lifting Human Rights Sanctions on Iran Would Be a Mistake
(National Interest) Orde F. Kittrie - The U.S. is reportedly poised to lift all sanctions on many of Iran's worst human rights abusers and terrorism sponsors in exchange for remarkably weak nuclear concessions from Iran. Both Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan maintained strong human rights pressure on the Soviet Union while successfully negotiating major arms control agreements. The current Congress should step in to ensure that the administration's eagerness for a deal with Iran does not undermine accountability for Iran's egregious human rights abuses and sponsorship of terrorism. The writer, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, served as the U.S. State Department's lead attorney for nuclear affairs.