Professor Cotler, I would add just one other idea. It may not be a good one, but in addition to adopting Iranian political prisoners, there should be a program of scorning Iranian political abusers. I think Ali and Mark's point is exactly right, that it's about the names and faces and stories. As soon as people become reduced to a name and a description on a regulatory order, it is all forgotten.
We should have a program of scorning the abusers. We should know their names, we should know their faces, we should understand their business activities, we should know where they travel, and we should understand who they are and what their stories are. I would suggest that you don't want to adopt abusers—I think that's probably the wrong construct—but should institute a program of scorning the abusers and naming and shaming them and then use SEMA and other means to go after their core interests, both economic and financial.
As well, we can use instruments of isolation, so that when they travel there is somebody calling INTERPOL to slap red notices on them; so that when they are skiing with their family in Gstaad, Switzerland, there are demonstrations; and so that when they are shopping in London, they are met with scorn wherever they go.
I think the political isolation element of this is critical, because the Iranians have negotiated a nuclear framework that will ultimately be turned into a nuclear deal, which will not only allow them to retain a nuclear infrastructure and get billions of dollars in cash, but also end their political isolation. They've done that brilliantly. They have flipped the construct on the international community and Iran is effectively being welcomed back into the family of nations.
In essence, I think that's President Obama's strategy—not economic coercion but economic seduction. We're going to integrate Iran, and by integrating Iran we'll transform the regime. Transforming the regime will render it less of a danger regionally and there will be less of a danger in their retaining a nuclear infrastructure.
If that's the strategy, then what you're effectively doing is taking the most abusive elements of Iran's government and welcoming them back into the international community. By welcoming them back, you're essentially giving them your blessing to continue their vast system of domestic repression against nameless and faceless victims.
Let's scorn a political oppressor while adopting a political prisoner. I think that would be a good way to twin the program.