NPR 

This comment is regarding the 9:00 am news broadcast on 9/23/08. The broadcast quoted from "Iranian activists" that women rights have deteriorated in Iran but that people in Iran enjoy greater freedoms than other countries in the region such as Saudi Arabia and UAE. In the interest of full disclosure it will be nice to know who these "activists" are and what agenda they pursue by minimizing human rights abuses in Iran. These "activists" could have pointed out that in summer of 1988, thousands of political prisoners, many of whom were nearing the end of their jail term, were massacred based on summary interviews during which prisoner's wrong answer to any of the three interview questions would mean death sentence. This crime of the regime against humanity has been extensively documented and many of the current Iranian rulers were either involved or turned a blind eye.