I'd like the thank the witnesses for being here today and for helping us to make our sanctions regime better.
We know that we have three main sanctions regimes or instruments that work together around sanctions: one, we have UN sanctions that we apply here, which can include multilateral sanctions; two, we have SEMA, which has existed for a while, on special economic measures; and, layered on top of that, not wholly but in part, are the Magnitsky sanctions, which say that SEMA should be applied not only with respect to economic measures but to having a human rights lens when applying it.
That being said, Mr. Nazary, you are involved in relief work. I know that you're involved in Afghan relief work. Importantly, you spoke about the current situation in Afghanistan, and you support robust sanctions on the Taliban regime.
I would just like to know, given your humanitarian work, if you can tell us about the impacts, if any, on the people of Afghanistan with respect to these sanctions. Related to that, are our sanctions, the regimes that are in place, hitting those that we're intending on hitting?