Human Rights in the Foreign Policy Approach of the United States and Iran

In the current continual and dependent world, no country could step the route of the advancement development solely based upon its local capabilities and non-attentive to the outside world.  Paying attention to the nature of human rights regulations in the international arena for implementation in the domestic system is one of the key points and understanding of the monitoring process.  Because human rights law, on the one hand, declares privileges that, although an international obligation on the part of countries, the real stakeholders are individuals or groups of people, not their respective states.  The issue of human rights in various political, economic and cultural dimensions has created a situation in which, in the age of globalization, most United Nations countries pay attention to human rights standards in their foreign policy. The United States, as a world power, has also addressed the issue of human rights in its foreign policy approach to its own country and to other countries. Also, in recent years, the study of the diplomatic relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the international levels indicates that the issue of human rights is one of the most important issues which is in the diplomatic relations. The present article uses a descriptive-analytical method to study human rights in the type of foreign policy approach of the United States and Iran.