Thank you.
Welcome, and thank you for your testimony. This is a huge and ongoing issue.
Mr. Azoulay, you briefly touched on a few thousand years of history in a matter of moments, on an issue that still is very, very poignant today. As my colleague Mr. Sweet pointed out, two nights ago we had a take-note debate on the issue of anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, in my hometown there was an incident in the Côte-Saint-Luc area, NDG area, of anti-Semitic acts.
It's an issue that's steeped in history, and issues that are steeped in history, as we've seen throughout history, are very, very hard issues to tackle. In Iran there's a population, you said, of 8,000 Jews still in Iran.
First off, just for my own edification, have they chosen to stay in Iran because of the fact that they are Iranian or their history is Iranian, or are they being prevented from leaving? Is there a travel ban that's preventing them from leaving?