Ali Hoseini Khamenei

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.