James Jeffrey: “Military force is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of the package to deal with the Iranian threats to the region.”

This is a brutal dictator. He should be held accountable for his crimes.

There is no doubt, including in the White House, that Iran is an extremely dangerous, expansionist force in the region.

what kind of message does that send and why would anybody want to be our allies in the future?

Every day we come to our jobs in the State Department and in the U.S. Government working on Syria, our goal is to ensure that that Assad regime does not gain another inch unless we have a political process and everybody wins, not just him.