I want to make two comments on that.
One, there is something called the spiral model in the literature on human rights promotion. There are countries that want to take care of their reputation. Iran does care for its reputation. They engage in a limited fashion hoping to tactically remove the pressure, but in the end, they get caught up in deeper affairs at home. For this, what must be done is to identify aspects in which Iran could, in their perspective, safely pursue engagement and embed a structure that can lead to longer term change. In that way, pursuing this would be important as long as there's an effort made to pursue them. I think more can be done in the UN context to operationalize those recommendations and pursue them going forward.
The resolution that Canada proposed in the UN General Assembly remains the highest bar for Iran to achieve and the loudest message that Iran gets on what it ought to be doing. Therefore, it has a very valuable purpose in helping everybody, Iranis, and whether to go....
Again, unlike other countries, as we mentioned here, like North Korea and so on and forth, Iran cares more about its reputation than North Korea does, so it does engage in Geneva and in New York. It tries to elect members from Iran into various bodies in the UN. Sometimes they do get elected, and sometimes they don't. This discourse in the General Assembly, to highlight their reputation, does give them an incentive to make some changes.
The follow-through needs to be more consistent and more penetrative in order to pursue those to a more effective conclusion.
