Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, absolutely. In terms of moderates in Iran, I personally am not associated in any way with the People's Mojahedin of Iran or with the NCRI, but I know what they would say. They would say if you want to encourage the moderates in Iran, you'd deal with the PMOI or the NCRI. E

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's a good question. This of course gets us into the State Immunity Act. The State Immunity Act is an immunity for states and not individuals, but it's been interpreted to apply to individuals who are acting for the state. The courts have said that if you allow a lawsuit agai

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I say, you can't actually weaponize a nuclear capacity until you have a nuclear capacity. It's almost like a second stage. You can't get weapons-grade plutonium until you can make plutonium. The stuff that was being smuggled in was the stuff to develop the nuclear capacity. It

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In fact, there is a trial like that going on in Canada right now. The accused is Munyaneza, and it's about the Rwandan genocide. We have legislation in Canada called Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which allows for universal jurisdiction. We did try it before under

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There's a requirement of presence. There has to be some tie to Canada. It's possible that we could get jurisdiction in other ways if there's a Canadian victim, but with incitement to genocide, that might be a hard argument to raise. That legislation requires prosecution by th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There was a report that came out that said weaponization had stopped a couple of years ago. Weaponization is a relatively easy process once you have nuclear energy. It doesn't take very long and doesn't involve that much effort. It's like putting the pieces together. What had sto

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, I can't think of any country offhand that has actually said it would not allow Ahmadinejad to visit. I do know that with the President of Sudan there is this international arrest warrant, which means that states party to this agreement would have to cooperate. If al-Bashir we

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I certainly wouldn't suggest that they be re-armed. I don't think that's the answer. We have to look at protecting them in other ways. It's true that the change in administration has accelerated the removal of American troops from Iraq, but it was always planned that they would b

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. Forgive me, but I am going to reply in English. Yes, particularly when it comes to nuclearization, I think sanctions could play a part. The Security Council has in fact mandated limited sanctions against Iran. I think there's a good deal of promise in expanding that avenue

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I said in my opening statement, the listing shouldn't matter for the purpose of arbitrary execution and torture. These are absolute standards; they don't have exceptions. It's not okay to kill or torture terrorists arbitrarily, even if the listing were right. In principle, the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, of course, drawing comparisons is always invidious, and no comparison is exact. Unfortunately for the Tutsi victim population, of course, they were a captive population. There had been a long history of incitement to hatred in discourse within Iran, I guess you could say.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sure. We are coming to a critical moment because of the status of forces agreement. Up until the end of last year, the legal basis for the presence of the Americans in Iraq was a Security Council resolution, but that changed starting this year. The Security Council resolution aut

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much for inviting me. I'm going to talk about human rights in Iran from a few different perspectives. I want to talk about the incitement to genocide of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I want to talk a bit about Camp Ashraf, and I also want to talk a bit about the