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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee If I could very quickly add to that, there's a certain amount of irony when President Hassan Rouhani claims that the international community is practising nuclear apartheid, when his very regime practises human rights apartheid. There's a certain amount of irony that should be ap
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Professor Cotler, it's exactly the right question. The joint plan of action is very specific that there should be no new nuclear sanctions while these negotiations are taking place, but the administration is on record as supporting new human rights sanctions and new terrorism s
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I'm a supporter of always talking to your enemies. I think it's important to talk to your enemies. I think that Reagan's dictum is an important one, which is “trust but verify,” although I would argue that in the case of the Iranian regime, we shouldn't trust and we absolutely ne
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Yes. You're exactly right.
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Sorry, sir. I have to say that the acoustics are not great in here. Is the question about Iranian front groups?
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee First of all, if you want an exposition on Iranian front groups, I'm happy to provide that. I don't think I actually have provided that in my testimony, but—
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I hear your point. The organization that I head as executive director is a non-profit organization based in Washington. It's a non-profit and it's funded by private North American donors. We don't get any money from foreign governments. We don't get any money from corporations.
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I do. I think there's a fundamental link. This is a regime that depends for its survival on fear, creating fear abroad and creating fear at home. The nuclear weapon is the ultimate weapon of fear for creating fear abroad. The vast system of domestic repression that the Iranian re
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I think that's exactly right. I think the Obama administration's conception of these negotiations is these are arms-control negotiations. They're not even arms control; they're nuclear negotiations, because ballistic missiles seem to be increasingly taken off the table. In light
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you very much for your question. I believe that a nuclear deal is possible, even with this regime. I'm skeptical that a deal could be reached by July 30 unless it's a bad deal. If there's a bad deal it could be reached very quickly. The fundamental condition—there are man
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you very much. Honourable members of this subcommittee, I am privileged to appear again before you today to discuss the issue of Iran's nuclear negotiations, Iran's human rights abuses, and the intersection between the two. It's a great honour to appear beside my colleague
May 13th, 2014Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you for that question. You're absolutely right. There has actually been some excellent reporting done by The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg, in open sources over the past couple of years detailing international companies that are selling tools of electronic re
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I'll just add that one great example was the global dialogue conference in Toronto two weeks ago, which I believe was sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Munk School of Global Affairs. Iranian-Canadian civil society activists were brough
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee You know, sir, it's even worse than that. That just sounds like a bad sitcom, but it actually is worse. The United Nations has been so penetrated by Iranian largesse, and the strange voting patterns and voting blocks of the UN, that the Iranians have not only chaired the disarmam
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I think what's happening is that the supreme leader looked at the election of 2009 and realized that he had lost control. He had lost control of somebody that he had considered to be a loyalist. But what he had was a populist. He had a former mayor of Tehran who understood grass
May 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Mark Dubowitz