Demanding to be considered a political prisoner as opposed to a criminal, after 66 days of hunger strike, on 5 May 1981 Robert Gerard Sands died while in British captivity.

Demanding to be considered a political prisoner as opposed to a criminals, after 60 days of hunger strike, on December 12, 2018 Vahid Sayyadi-Nasiri died while in the captivity of Islamist fascists in Iran.

After the death of Bobby Sands, there was a wide spread international reaction and condemnation.

There are currently many Iranian political prisoners who are on hunger strike, lets hope the death of Iranian Bobby Sands garners the same reaction about their horrendous situation as the death of Irish Bobby Sands generated.

Airtight sanctions - which includes oil - a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.