Antony Blinken

I think we will find that out over the next 2 months.

I regret that I did not live up to the standard I set during that hearing and in the remarks that you just quoted.

Today, Iran has no 20 percent enriched uranium, zero, none.

As part of the JPOA we also committed, within the bounds of our system, not to impose new nuclear-related sanctions while the JPOA is in effect.

Any agreement with Iran would require the kind of access, monitoring, and transparency that actually would put Iran in a place that is exceptional.

I were aware generally that the White House was conducting secret discussions with Cuba.

Congress has to be fully part and parcel of doing this.

We seek to achieve a long-term comprehensive solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.

Iran still is not open for business, and its economy remains in a deep hole.

The concern that we would have is that if we are saying we are going to be suspending certain sanctions early on, and yet that is still subject to an initial vote by the Congress in some fashion, they will doubt our ability to actually…

I do not think that is possible. Can we significantly increase our ability... to detect an effort by Iran to develop a covert program?

they will not be, in a sense, a threshold state at the end of this.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

We will be no worse off, and, indeed, we will be infinitely better off, given the knowledge that we will accumulate over time about their program.

Any agreement has to eliminate its production of 20 percent fissile material in a permanent fashion.

Even if Iran does not walk away or promptly returns to the table, its negotiators are likely to adopt more extreme positions in response.

Because of the scope and intensity of the sanctions Iran currently is subject to, and because of the economic pressure those sanctions continue to apply, we believe that new sanctions are not needed at this time.

We believe that the best way to proceed is based, not only the commitments they make, but also the steps they take to implement those commitments.

Thanks to cooperation on the international stage between the United States and its allies, and the joint work of Congress and this administration, Iran is negotiating with its back against the wall.

At the end of the day, we will all have to judge whether what we have achieved in any kind of solution meets our security interests.

We have real reasons to be deeply concerned and skeptical about the ability to reach any arrangement.

So far from being able to implement additional sanctions, we would be unable probably to implement the existing sanctions regime.

In our efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, sanctions were never an end in themselves.

I think may be premature.

In our judgment, we are negotiating from a position of strength.