We are the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today, May 5, 2009, we are having meeting number 16. We continue with our hearings regarding human rights in Iran.
We have two witnesses with us today. In the room is Gregory Stanton, who is the president of Genocide Watch and is up from the United States. By video conference from Brussels, we have Emanuele Ottolenghi, the executive director of the Transatlantic Institute.
I'm going to suggest that we start with spoken submissions from our two witnesses. I'll ask Professor Stanton to begin, and when you're finished, we'll go to Dr. Ottolenghi. After that we'll take questions from our panel members.
Please begin.