Katrina Lantos Swett: “I commend your focus on the continued deterioration of religious freedom conditions in Iran, most notably for Christians…”

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

I do think a central part of the answer to that question is that human rights, religious freedom have to be elevated in the public discourse.

you are among the most valiant and courageous defenders of human rights in all their forms and for all people everywhere that our country has known

Because we, of all people, know what happens when religious extremism is exported as terrorism, USCIRF urges our Government to prioritize religious freedom not only as a core human right, but a vital part of any security-driven…