I think we've seen a similar set of challenges play out in dealing with North Korea, as an illustration, which is a nuclear power, not an aspiring one but an actual nuclear power, which has one of the worst human rights and humanitarian records in the world today.
The argument has been made over decades on North Korea, and the argument has been made similarly in recent years on Iran, that the international community shouldn't be raising these human rights and humanitarian concerns because it might distract from, or otherwise undermine, negotiations on these important nuclear questions.
My personal view is that the international community and governments are capable of doing more than one thing at a time, and much like we saw with the Helsinki process and engaging with the former Soviet Union there are ways to have discussions on nuclear questions and to have discussions on economic questions and human rights questions at the same time. But I think it's a reasonable question to ask given the terrible nature of the Iranian government's abuses against its own people about how that is in essence being swept under the carpet to a large extent by the international community because of this exclusive focus on the nuclear question.
Obviously it's understandable why the nuclear question is paramount, but it shouldn't preclude the international community from also looking to address the suffering of the Iranian people. I think if you were to ask the average Iranian, who as you say would like to see civil uses for nuclear technology and have every right to want to have that for themselves and their own people, what is it you think about every day, the average Iranian, for example, who yearns to be free, which is most Iranians, they're not thinking about the question of developing nuclear technology. They're worried about the fact that, as a woman, if they don't put on a head scarf, they could be subject to severe punishment. They're worried about their ability to express their viewpoint in disagreement with their government, and the fact that they could end up tortured or killed without any due process of law.
Those are the things, based on my experience talking to Iranians, that they worry about, not the nuclear question.
Again, I think we need to address both, but I think you were right to point out that there is a substantial disconnect internationally between the focus on the nuclear question and the human rights questions.