Has the White House encouraged the Secretary General to directly voice this concern with the Iranian regime?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

One of the few sources who went on the record in the Times article, former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare, said Coulson, then his boss at the tabloid, "actively encouraged me" to hack into the voice mails of public figures to get stories for the News of the World.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Far from being a voice of orthodoxy, Mr Schneider encouraged debate, and doubts, on subjects that some of his colleagues thought beyond the pale.

ECONOMIST: Steve Schneider

The cringe was a colonial hangover in a stultifyingly conservative Anglo-Celtic country blighted by the tyranny of distance, where governments of neither political hue encouraged Australian artists to speak with their own voice.

ECONOMIST: The wizards of Oz come of age