Foreign Affairs committee  That's right. Basically, if the IRGC gains money from all these contracts, things will happen, will go forward. That's what I can say based on my experience following the activities of IRGC. On the other hand, I should point out that Turkey has had a negative environmental impa

Foreign Affairs committee  A lot of money has been funnelled to Turkey in the last 10 years, and some people have been arrested by the U.S. in that regard. The international community could possibly monitor things and see how it has gone through to block other monetary actions and transactions between the

Foreign Affairs committee  It's mostly for internal needs. A very small amount of the electricity is produced through hydroelectricity, through the dams. We mostly use thermal techniques to produce electricity. The minister of energy uses the excuse of creating clean energy, but we could have used solar pa

Foreign Affairs committee  Right.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a great question. I would add that many of them do not believe that the regime will survive for even 10 years. That's the reason I can see for their wiring and funnelling money out of the country. If they believed that they were going to survive, they wouldn't need to us

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Absolutely. First of all, we have so many aquifers all around the country that we can use different techniques to manage flood water to recharge them. Based on the numbers, we can actually store more than 12 years of total rain of the country in aqui

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm working on a documentary about the water crisis in Iran, but I travelled to Israel last month to study their achievements and experience. If you compare Iran and Israel in the last 70 years, Israel has turned from a yellow country to a green one and Iran has turned from a gre

Foreign Affairs committee  There have been so many villages in marginal provinces and near the Iranian border with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq that have been evacuated for different reasons. One is water, which I'm mostly concerned about, but also, they are mostly from the Sunni minority as well. Theref

Foreign Affairs committee  Many of the Kurds in various provinces, such as Kurdistan, Kermanshah or western Azerbaijan in the northwestern part of the country, are suffering from discrimination. Also, some of their water rights are being stolen from them. It's a fact that since the beginning of the revolut

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development and the Subcommittee on International Human Rights, it is an honour and privilege for me as an Iranian Canadian to address this body on the matter