Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My colleague was going to a place very similar to where I was going in the sense of speaking to my colleague beside me and just mentioning the extraordinary indomitable spirit that our two witnesses have and, of course, those like them in Iran who consistently put up with the treatment that they do. We commend you highly for being before us today and for continuing to take risks in order that other people might be free.
Mr. Chair, I've been to Yad Vashem, Israel, and there is a chronology of the Holocaust. What really concerns me with the testimony today and the previous testimony is that all of the elements that were precursors, harbingers, of the Holocaust are at play in Iran today: the arrest of individuals with trumped-up charges, the elimination of freedom of the press, and then of course very disturbing is the demonization of particular cultures through the press, which is controlled by the state. I just see that ever-increasing with every witness we hear.
Although I only have a limited amount of time, I want to put a question to you specifically, Ms. Zamani, because there's one issue that I was not familiar with. You said that in your quest for defending human rights you actually were attacked by some opposition groups. Can you educate us a bit on that dynamic, which is just one more challenge in trying to get the word out?