Katrina Lantos Swett: “I want to once again reiterate how important it is that the issue of religious freedom not be cast as sort of a nice…”

This is going to be part of our official policy that the promotion of human rights should be a central and principal goal of American foreign policy.

It is ironic indeed that in today's Persia, which we now call Iran, its current leaders follow in Haman's footsteps by expressing their own form of vicious anti-Semitism.

I commend your focus on the continued deterioration of religious freedom conditions in Iran, most notably for Christians and other religious minorities.

The fact that a majority of the people in this world face persecution and oppression because of their faith is something that should offend every American.