Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to express our appreciation to you, Dr. Shaheed, for appearing before us today. Your reports and testimony have always been comprehensive, exemplary, and worthy of the recognition that they have been given. This leads me directly to my question.
In Geneva tomorrow, the United Nations Human Rights Council will be conducting its universal periodic review of Iran's human rights record. After the first UPR, in 2010, Iran accepted 123 of the council's 188 recommendations. It committed itself to complying with the international human rights obligations to which it is bound, including matters such as the free exercise of religion, the rights of detainees, protection against torture, and the like.
Now, four years later, to what extent has Iran lived up to its own undertakings from 2010, and in what way can the UN Human Rights Council hold it to account for the breach of its own undertakings?