At the beginning of the Biden administration the President's Iran policy was abundantly clear and that was an attempt to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal regardless of the cost.

The Administration chose engagement and appeasement over containment and isolation.

This is a failure of American policy that will have consequences for years to come.

When it comes to Iran, both sides of the aisle agree on more than they disagree.

Money is the sinews of war. Iran understands that. If you do not go after the money, it is just not a serious strategy.

I think it is a smart approach to target Iran's illegal oil smuggling to China.

Money is the sinews of war. Iran understands that. If you do not go after the money, it is just not a serious strategy.

The Administration chose engagement and appeasement over containment and isolation.

It is clear the Iranian regime doubts Biden's will to impose serious costs. It is time to do things differently.

I cannot overstate how bad policy has allowed Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea to move from being transactional partners to strategic allies with each other.

We must enforce existing Iran sanctions to include stopping Chinese purchase of Iranian oil, and we must permanently freeze Iranian assets around the world.

Congress should unite to send a message to Tehran that its terrorism comes at a significant cost.

When it comes to Iran, both sides of the aisle agree on more than they disagree.

We never talked about it, and I am not going to get into the details here but one of the real things that we really need to focus on is not a drop of oil moves without it going into a ship, and that ship has to have insurance or the ship…

We must demonstrate American leadership.

We must adopt a policy of containment. Iran does not think like the West.

Iran is an enduring national security challenge and requires a serious policy that uses all instruments of national power.

First, yes, we have to enforce our sanctions, particularly on the energy sector, and I think there is going to be consensus in this committee to strengthen those tools, and China is going to clearly be a focus of our attention as to how we…