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Recently, there was a Twitter quarrel between Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in which each accused the other of lying. In the wake of that, it is reasonable to put Zarif’s sincerity into perspective.

In 2015, in an interview with Charlie Rose, Zarif said of Iran’s regime, “We do not jail people for their opinions."

That is a lie. Since the beginning of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian people have been imprisoned for their religion, political affiliations, and for expressing their opinions about the regime itself. Just recently, May Kholousi and her daughter Saghi Fadaei, two Baha’i women living in Mashhad, were put in prison simply for practicing their faith. Sattar Beheshti of Robat-Karim was a blogger who died in November 2012 while jailed for criticizing the regime on Facebook. He had merely expressed his opinion.

And there are countless other examples easy to find.

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