Yes. When the “Woman, Life, Freedom” revolutionary protests happened, I noticed at that time that there was a lot of duplication of work among different Iranian diaspora groups with maybe five people creating databases on who had been killed and who had been injured. One by one, I started to ask some of these Iranian diaspora groups to come together to share, so they could form synergies in order to be more efficient and effective.
What I realized, by the end of it, was that we had amassed 100 Iranian diaspora groups and 200 very prominent, active Iranian diaspora leaders, all with varying technocratic degrees of expertise in various fields, such as communication, human rights and medical. I realized that with all these different single entities and islands, if we could somehow centralize this, we could be so much more efficient.
That's the premise of that. We're already working together and doing great things. If the Government of Canada, for example, were to give us a venue or some support, we could really expand and have much more output and productivity.
