Mr. Chair, I respectfully disagree with my colleague on the issue of international law. I would put to her three points. First, the right of sovereignty is properly understood to be invested in the Iranian people, not in their oppressors and occupiers, the Iranian people who have taken to the streets, demanded change, been brutally slaughtered and are asking for action to protect them. Second, we have a responsibility to protect people who are being slaughtered by the regime that occupies them, people who have done everything they can but do not have the means to displace this regime without outside intervention. Third, the member would have us go to the UN Security Council where Russia, in the midst of its slaughter of civilians in Ukraine, could veto interventions against its ally and enabler, Iran.
What does the member offer in response to these points that, practically, would help the Iranian people get out of this?