http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-iran-human-rights-and-nuclear-security-go-hand-in-hand/2013/11/29/e131a7dc-578b-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html
This article in the Washington Post that I found I thought was very interesting. It seems that there is a lot of disregard for human rights in Iran. Apparently Iran has the world's highest per capita rate of executions. With this dealing with nuclear power, Iran and its seems the world as well is almost completely ignoring the human rights problem that is going on in Iran in order to go on with the new nuclear program. There is persecution of many religious minorities and ethnic groups such as Christians, Kurds, and Ahwazi Arabs. It looks that if human rights are being sacrificed for this nuclear deal.
In some ways I feel that by making this nuclear rights treaty, the possibility to make change on the human rights front grows. With the current state of affairs Iran is largely isolated from the Western world, where human rights are given more attention. By making progress on this geopolitical issue, and bringing Iran into the global fold, pressure to stop human rights violations will have an increased presence in the now isolated country.
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