Human rights are the free wills where individuals are at liberty to practice and receive which include: being at liberty to live, way of expression and impartiality practices before the ruling law. Different states promote these human rights differently in respects to their governing laws. International law puts more into considerations on rights regarding human prosecutions (Koh, 2010).
There have been conflicts occurring between Iran and the United States over human rights issues leaders within the last two years. The following discussion is a description concerning the conflicts between Iran and the United States in the promotion of human rights some violations of human rights by Iran, such as abuse of the captives. The conflicts are within the reign of Barak Obama as the U.S presidents and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.
United State president has always advocated the universal rights that every human should receive. In support of this, he, therefore, agreed to an executive order though signing it which was against the human rights abuse in Iran after the dubious presidential elections which took place last year in June.
The peaceful protestants in Iran had been illogical arrested and imprisoned where they were beaten, and even some of them murdered following the arrest. There were also some attacks in Tehran University in Iran last year 15th June where many students were ruthlessly beaten and imprisoned under the command of Sadeq a leading minister in Iran. They that were imprisoned were ill-treated and tormented in torture.
President Obama was against the torture made to the detained in Iran thus conflicting with the Iranian president as this was all done for him to remain in office by the fact that there were disputes regarding his presidency elections. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad argued that any critic, especially to the ruling government, is illegal in Iran (Schulz, 2008). All they that pose critics are supposed to be imprisoned, the law that led to the imprisonments of the protestants of the 2009 elections.
Iran is an Islamic country governed by Mahmoud, where the law advocates for women discrimination as one man life is worth two women. In U.S men and women are have equal human rights such that in law court witnesses, there is no need of two women to represent one man which is the case in Iran (Osanloo, 2009). These diversities on laws have led to conflicts between the two leaders where U.S president has issued sanctions to Iran.
The concepts of human rights and sovereignty have a lot of influence in reverence to the decisions made by the two countries. The sovereignty of states concepts demands that every state should be in a position to govern themselves controlling all the activities they carry and in the way these activities are done. In states sovereignty, the external challenge is highly prohibited. Thus Iran has got all the powers to rule its citizens in reverence to its constitutional laws.
According to Iran president based on the Iran law, universal rights to individuals are just western concepts such as equality which is nowhere to be found in Iranian values. Sovereignty concept does not, however, permit the violations of human rights even though it owns the autonomy (Levy & Sznaider, 2010).
According to the 2005 agreement of the World Summit, sovereignty is under human security with the protection of human rights. Thus according to human rights concepts, United State argues that state sovereignty should not at all cost violate the human rights, and in this view, the president Obama issued sanctions against Iran (Fassihian, 2010). In every state, the human right tends to differ, but there are universal accepted rights.
By this United, State is ready to join hands with the Iranians who aspire for the universal rights while calling upon the government to respect human rights. Finally, the biggest challenge left is whether human rights should take over from states’ sovereignty, or it is the state sovereignty, which is to supersede. There however, should be balanced between the two as the states govern human beings.
References
Fassihian, D. (2010). It’s time for Obama to support a UN rights monitor on Iran. Web.
Koh, H. H. (2010). The Obama Administration and International Law. Web.
Levy, D., & Sznaider, N. (2010). Human Rights and Memory. New York: Penn State Press.
Osanloo, A. (2009). The politics of women’s rights in Iran. New York: Princeton University Press.
Schulz, W. F. (2008). The future of human rights: U.S. policy for a new era. New York: University of Pennsylvania Press.