Madam Chair, in fact, not only the community itself but friends of the community gathered together with hundreds of thousands of people gathering over roughly the past 10 days. There were 350,000 people who gathered in Richmond Hill with one voice, asking for the overthrow of the regime, asking for support of the American and Israeli effort to overthrow the Iranian government.
People are fed up. They are fed up because they are living in fear. They are fed up because of what is happening to their families back home. Their loved ones are being taken out of their homes, beaten to death because they dared to say, “We want to have a voice in how we are governed”. That is what we are dealing with. It is a brutal regime. With people that behave like that, we cannot have diplomacy. We cannot have de-escalation talks. They are not people who have de-escalation talks. Their way of resolving problems is by hanging people from cranes in Mashhad in the square.