i am morgan ortagus with the department of state. thank you everyone for coming today to this event to focus on an important and very serious subject, human rights in iran. i want to first recognize some really amazing people we have here today. i believe they have over 50 members of the diplomatic corps ambassadors in washington. thank you very much for coming. i'm very glad to see we also have so many people from the iranian diaspora as well this event is really for you. we'll begin today's program with the marks and secretary mike pompeo followed by a session with three cohosts of today's event and international religious freedom sam brownback deputy director for the iran action group might spell and assistant secretary for democracy human rights and labor robert estero. during the listening session we have this morning we heard from members of the iranian diaspora but how we can continue to stand with the iranian people by sharing stories, supporting their voices in championing their rights. today we will share what we heard from
