It's nice to know somebody cares.

Maybe they'll send election monitors.

Not mentioned were the number of suspect war criminals - real ones and not the confabulations of Bush/Cheney & now Obama/Biden - still strolling US streets without a care in the world.

It may be that Human Rights are violated in many parts of the world. But a good starting point is in the Foreign Ministers backyard IRAN...Start by giving Iran Women equal rights and release those innocent young people that expressed their discontent with the rigged election that put the current Iranian president into office.

Oh no, you crazed, irrational, uncivilized terrsts in Iran have no business telling the mighty USA that we have no habeas corpus, an injustice system that serves only the wealthy, a rigged electoral system that serves only the wealthy, torture, war crimes, a third-world distribution of income and wealth, the largest prison populaton on earth(comprised disproprotionately of blacks and poor folks)

Oh no, we aint havin that. We only do double standards and hypocrisy here: WE ARE THE EMPIRE and WE DICTATE THE DISCOURSE got it?

Iran evil, USA #1 end of story. Now, when does the bombing commence?

Pot calling the kettle black--isn't it? Will take Iran seriously when it releases the political prisoners it is holding and makes reparations for the torture they were exposed to.

now we know how funny the US must have been sounding to the rest of the world.

It's interesting that we have to go to the Tehran Times to find out what the corporate-owned news refuses to tell us on the 24-hour infotainment networks.

Excellent article! Excellent challenge by the Iranian government to this constant ethnocentricism about abusing human rights! I am so tired of hearing our government criticize other governments like Iran as a cover for the abuses they so tirelessly engage in, and in service of their oil warloads and the endless war we must suffer, without recourse to change, because our politicians are bought and sold by these corporations.

I hope we hear Iran put healthcare on the list of human rights abuses in one of the richest nations on earth. Although they are a much poorer nation, they are doing better than the U.S. as their Constitution guarantees health care to its citizens as a right. Putting a firm end to any questions there, a stupid debate in the U.S. with the Tea Bags that rages constantly ("health care is not a right" etc.) To whit:

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The constitution entitles Iranians to basic health care, and most receive subsidized prescription drugs and vaccination programs. An extensive network of public clinics offers basic care at low cost, and general and specialty hospitals operated by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) provide higher levels of care. In most large cities, well-to-do persons use private clinics and hospitals that charge high fees.[3] About 73% of all Iranian workers have health care and social security coverage.[3] In 2000, 94% of the population could access local health services, according to the WHO. Access ranged from 86% in rural areas to 100% in urban areas.[3] Between 80% and 94% of the population could access affordable essential medicines in 1999.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Iran

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As just one of many bad memories of our health care system, I well remember standing on line at a nice pharmacy while an elderly gentleman was told that his insurance wouldn't cover medications that he needed immediately for the next couple of days in order to stay alive. He had to cough up hundreds of dollars, there on the spot, if he wanted the medicine. There we stood, on line, fifteen people or so, watching them tell this old man in old clothing that they wouldn't give his medicine unless he came up with this extraordinary amount of money.

My country makes me sick.

I would like to see more international challenges to the United States for human rights abuses here at home, and in addition to the things mentioned in this article, particularly on health care for U.S. citizens.

This is ALL true ,and is on your local news. I've known this for 20 years. We have movies about it all the time. It's just that Hollywood, and all those Leaders of ours convince people it's cool to live the drug,biker, kick ass life. As far as the War and Torture we have all known for years ,I never hear anyone say anything about it,, Liberals or TP's ,.Our prison system, is designed to keep hundreds of thousands of Correctional Dept. people. Judges, Lawyers, Clerks, So many people count on these high paying jobs. Somebody has to be in jail, in order for these people to have all these high paying jobs. You think they could have thought of something better than locking up a bunch of their nieghbors.Perhaps drug rehabs or something.
I hear it on CD sometimes, and I sure talk about it enough. Our country is destroying itself. Our Goverment is our enemy. It keeps people down and poor, while hammering in their heads how they must own this, and that.We are our own enemy we treat each other without any respect. Everybody has jobs that are for corporations that are taking all our money. We are being used to wipe each other out.

The good ole days we refer to aren't just the bad old bigget days...there was a time when the "Customer was always right" ,There was a time when Nieghbors helped one another, with projects, and had cookouts. We used to all be able to go to a baseball game a couple times a year, now they are so expensive only rich people can go. There was a time when Education was very important, even in the poorer schools.
We have lost our way as a Nation, everyone has spent all day at work calling their customers Bastards, and shit heads, all day under their breath...we hate each other. Our T.V. shows all are about putting each other down,the list goes on. Until we can become nicer people, who's only goal seems to be take our neighbors money, at our jobs, and take it all... we are doomed !

We are a threat to the World at the rate we are going. We have thousands of "Crooks" running this Country, and they have gotten away with it , the Wall Street guys even got bonuses ! There is nothing worse than people that get in trouble but nothing happens, it's like asking for trouble.
The World has no respect for us, because we have lost it. We used to be very well respected, but in the 70's things started to change....

There is no longer - hasn't been for a stretch - anything that remotely resembles the Jesus lovin U S of A. The circus packed up and left town on a Monday night, back in the late seventies, while you were watching Happy Days with your siblings. The vast majority of us are merely props for an unreality show - paid for by us - aptly named FREEDOM

Thank you Iran:

In the 20th century, the U.S. took your democracy away from you, and now, in the 21st century, Iran is pointing out that the U.S. has takem democracy away from the U.S. people too.

I suppose that by now, everyone hates the CIA.

Good points, but come on gentlemen! The most egregious human rights offences are the ones committed by the USA against people who live in other countries, where death by US intervention is an almost unbelievably increasingly common feature of the last 100yrs.

This is true to the extent that no-one needs care about US citizens, for it is what they do to others that really matters and every US citizen is responsible on that score: every single one. So why are we worried about their health? They are too healthy! We should be sad they are capable of getting about the world so easily.

Moreover, in accordance with US premises of morality and religion if they kill they should be killed.

The US is an absurdity. It needs to be dismantled and the bits put under control.

Now don't kill the messenger here.

Excellent article. They should also speak out against the USA's anti-democratic ballot access restrictions, which were specifically created to prevent opposition candidates from even being listed on the ballot. Read this article for further details:

http://fosterhall.blogspot.com/2009/06/restrictive-barriers-keep-us.html

Thank you Iran! I hope this becomes an international trend.

Peace.

Most Americans are shocked when they learn that other countries criticize the humans rights situation in the US - it doesn't mesh with the propaganda they've grown up within. Of course, this news is never on TV, so that limits it to the small group of Americans that read non-corporate approved news - a very, very small group.

Iran can be ignored - China cannot:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/12/content_9582821.htm
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing as "the world judge of human rights" again. As in previous years, the reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China, but turn a blind eye to, or dodge and even cover up rampant human rights abuses on its own territory. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009 is prepared to help people around the world understand the real situation of human rights in the United States.

I. On Life, Property and Personal Security
Widespread violent crimes in the United States posed threats to the lives, properties and personal security of its people.
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II. On Civil and Political Rights
In the United States, civil and political rights of citizens are severely restricted and violated by the government.
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III. On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Poverty, unemployment and the homeless are serious problems in the United States, where workers' economic, social and cultural rights cannot be guaranteed.
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IV. On Racial Discrimination
Racial discrimination is still a chronic problem of the United States.
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V. On the Rights of Women and Children
The living conditions of women and children in the United States are deteriorating and their rights are not properly guaranteed.
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VI. On US Violations of Human Rights against Other Nations
The United States with its strong military power has pursued hegemony in the world, trampling upon the sovereignty of other countries and trespassing their human rights.
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(The whole report is just 9 pages long - interesting read)

I guess the point of this article would be to point out that Iran, too, can look utterly ridiculous by complaining about actual human right abuses in some other countries while at the same time doing nothing and/or encouraging the same abuses at home.