Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Ziaei started touching on this. Mr. Sobhani, you talked about how we've seen so many Iranian cultural leaders, artists, musicians and actors speak out about the human rights of Iranian people. My colleague, NDP MP Bonita Zarrillo, recently put out a statement in support of hip hop artist Toomaj Salehi, who has been sentenced to death for his art. We know musicians and artists are at high risk of being targeted by the Iranian regime.
Could you tell us a bit more about what it means to Iranians, both within Iran and in the diaspora, to see aspirations and hopes for human, civil and political rights and their hopes for freedom represented in music and art? How can we, as Canadians and parliamentarians, better support their work?