Katrina Lantos Swett: “The Administration seems intent on monitoring and controlling every aspect of our lives, while ignoring our most basic…”

I think that it is a very flimsy excuse for not funding technologies that enable vast numbers of people to access the internet freely.

If they are unwilling to do something so easy, so easy, then I think we have to be concerned about their willingness to do something very hard which is unwind a very elaborate and deceptive and deeply embedded nuclear program.

USCIRF stands with Ms. Abedini and her family, has called repeatedly for the Pastor's release, and urges the U.S. Government at the highest levels to demand his release.

That vulnerability needs to be exploited, not merely to achieve progress on the nuclear front, but to achieve progress on the human rights front.