Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"But when we complain about the Iranians--and all of us probably in this room would agree with you that they are the major destabilizing influence in that area--we are talking as much about the Russian..."

"their conduct there has been destabilizing--the word you used was 'destabilizing'--and abnormal."

"I think we have to contest their revolutionary ideology, and it is not just the United States, but it has to be those in the region."

"How would you suggest that we should address the Iranian destabilizing influence of this regime?"