http://www.npr.org/2014/05/05/309694689/west-urged-to-pressure-iran-on-its-human-rights-record
This NPR report highlights a foreign policy issue in Iran that is commonly "overshadowed" by the nuclear talks. The multinational organizations associating with Iran need to inquire about Human Rights now rather than later or nothing will be done. Many want to wait until the nuclear issues are solved, and the hard liners are a little broken, but currently the rest of the world is saying that Iran's neglect to respect basic civil rights, especially in its political prisons, is OK. Iranians supporting the cause believe the west should not even be negotiating with Iran until Human Rights standards are met, but the problem is lack of consensus. Russia and China are much less concerned with it than the United States and Europe, therefore if we hold back we might end up putting ourselves in harms way when we are left out of the negotiation. Human Rights laws are followed by 99% of other countries, and if Iran wishes to participate in the world market they should too, but currently the stakes are too high for any one country to force it.
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