Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, sir. I wholeheartedly agree with that statement. Thank you for the honorary promotion to doctor, but alas, I don't have a Ph.D. In essence, yes, if Canada is not going to use legal authorities like a proscription, and political authorities like a proscription, to begin to contest the illicit presence of this global terrorist organization on its own soil, then it really leaves a huge capabilities gap and renders one, pushes one, into a worse footing to deal with transnational repression, terrorism, drug smuggling, arms proliferation and everything else that Canadian officials have been concerned about.

Foreign Affairs committee  We certainly have enough information to make a public call for the proscription. I say that as an American who also has an interest in having a more unified North American policy towards this group. But we need more information on the breadth and the depth of its other illicit activities that haven't made themselves known in the good news and articles that, for instance, Shahram Kholdi's reporting has revealed.

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. The main question is this: Does the west have the commensurate resolve to act to contest these threats and better marry its head and its heart on Iran policy? Thank you for the time and the opportunity.

Foreign Affairs committee  Chairman, vice-chairmen and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for providing me the opportunity to testify virtually before you today and to share my analysis. My comments today begin broad and then zoom in and come at a particularly turbulent time in Iran that may be hard to understand for external observers and non-Iran watchers.