Iranian Diaspora Worries About War, Sanctions and Human Rights
Many Iranians living in the US oppose broad economic sanctions against Iran, writes Roxana Saberi. Iranian Americans hope that the dispute over Iran's nuclear program won’t obscure Tehran’s human rights violations and the plight of ordinary Iranians.
As President Obama prepares to start his second term in office, many diaspora Iranians are hoping that US efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program won’t lead to disregard of Tehran’s human rights violations and the plight of ordinary Iranians suffering from sanctions.
Estimates of the number of Iranians living abroad range from two and a half to three million, with the largest population, around one million, in the United States.
