Systematic human rights violations continues in Iran, U.S. State Department annual right reports

The U.S. State Department issued its annual human rights report on Wednesday, April 13^th covering the status of human rights in Iran during the course of 2015.

Flagrant and Systematic Human Rights Violations in Iran

In a segment of this reported allocated to Iran the U.S. State Department covered the flagrant and systematic human rights violations in Iran, including increasing executions, especially against juveniles.

Violations of freedom of assembly, gatherings, press and religion were amongst the human rights violations focused on in the U.S. State Department report.

The Iranian regime and/or its agents have committed illegal arbitrary murders, the report states. During the course of 2015 the government executed 964 individuals, many of which never enjoyed due process in court. The report adds four of those executed were juveniles and under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged crime.

The U.S. State Department report considers the Iranian regime as a theocratic state with a political system based on the velayat-e faqih [governance by jurists], and the supreme leader of this regime has important influence over the legislative and executive branches. The report adds the supreme leader in Iran has special legal authority to control the judiciary, state media and armed forces, and indirectly controls domestic security forces and other key entities of the country.