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Why won’t any congressional Democrats support the bill sanctioning Iran’s leaders for human rights violations?
American Thinker ^ | 24 Oct, 2022 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 10/24/2022 5:46:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A vast protest movement of demonstrations all over Iran is shaking that theocratic and despotic regime led by Ayatolla Khmenei to its core. Now in their sixth week, the demonstrators, including many women, are protesting the death of 22-year-old Masha Amini for allegedly violating the strict dress code imposed on women, wearing a scarf in a way that displeased the religious police, who beat her to death. A new generation that came of age after President Obama betrayed the hopes of the Green Revolution in 2009 once again threatens the stability of the ruling circle's hold on power.

As Adam Kredo reports in the Free Beacon:

As the Iranian regime violently cracks down on growing nationwide protests, lawmakers’ attention is again on the atrocities committed at the hands of the Iranian regime. Yet not a single House Democrat has lent support to legislation that would sanction Iran’s supreme leader and his inner circle for mass human rights crimes, according to senior congressional sources familiar with the matter.

The bill, dubbed the Mahsa Amini Act after the 22-year-old Iranian woman who was killed by the regime’s morality police for improperly wearing her head covering, would "impose sanctions on the supreme leader of Iran and the president of Iran and their respective offices for human rights abuses and support for terrorism," according to a copy of the measure obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. (snip)

The Republican-led bill was circulated to every single Democratic House office, but not a single one has yet to cosponsor the bill, two senior Republican congressional aides told the Free Beacon.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: barackobama; communism; iran; iraq; jimmycarter; joebiden; johnkerry; lebanon; mashaamini; tyranny; yemen

1 posted on 10/24/2022 5:46:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Why won’t any congressional Democrats support the bill sanctioning Iran’s leaders for human rights violations?

Professional courtesy?

2 posted on 10/24/2022 5:47:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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follow the money


3 posted on 10/24/2022 5:48:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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They can’t because of the way they treat January 6th people? Yes, America violates human right now.

Rats really don’t care about human rights.


4 posted on 10/24/2022 5:49:50 AM PDT by dforest
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Aspirational goals for Democrats . Such power! Such money! Free to murder and take!


5 posted on 10/24/2022 5:56:42 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: central_va

follow the money
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It all goes back of Obozo and his handler, the Iranian born Valarie Jarrett.


6 posted on 10/24/2022 6:08:13 AM PDT by iontheball
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Because they admire dictators.


7 posted on 10/24/2022 6:08:34 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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Given the Jan 6th political prisoners, the harassment of people around Trump (Bannon, Navarro, Stone etc.), disappearence of a journalist, etc.

There is no moral authority to make it viable. In the case of current Democrats, maybe they would see the hypocrisy as they plan even more civil/human rights violations domestically (or fear being held to a standard when they're thrown out).

8 posted on 10/24/2022 6:14:38 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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Beczuse liberals here are engaged in human rights violations themselves (ie Jan 6 political prisoners denied rights)


9 posted on 10/24/2022 6:56:57 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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They don’t want to foul up Biden’s efforts to provide them with a nuclear weapon if they are kind enough to agree to accept pallets of cash from the US government to suppress the insurrection against them. Biden sure knows how to negotiate.


10 posted on 10/24/2022 7:45:24 AM PDT by chuckee
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