Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Ottolenghi, welcome today. I appreciate your being here.
I spent some time in Saudi Arabia in 1979. I was there for six months. One of the things I noticed at that time was the demonization of the west in general, and the U.S. in particular. That was done to keep our way of life separated from the Saudi Arabian people.
Of course in Iran it's a similar thing. Now that we have the Internet and news of this so-called Arab Spring has gone across the Middle East nations to some extent, I suspect that governments like the Iranian government are very, very fearful. We've had testimony at this committee before that people in that country are being executed, hanged at the rate of one every eight hours.
There seems to be a real movement to obliterate the Green Movement itself. Do you have any information on that, sir?