By being patient with the regime, I didn't mean that we should take the spotlight off of the Islamic Republic. I meant being patient with respect to the struggle for advancing human rights and democracy in Iran. That is a long-term struggle and has to be won in phases. I'm all in favour of shining the spotlight on human rights defenders in Iran and holding the regime to task.
I'm very worried, though, at this moment—if you're following the news—that any sort of coercive military action by the United States could make the situation a hundred times worse. That is a serious danger that we have to be cognizant of and push back against if we're serious about human rights.
That's essentially what I was talking about.