Our overall policy regarding Iran is clear. First and foremost, we are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Iran has really only two allies left: Syria and Hezbollah. And when, indeed, Bashir al-Assad steps aside, which he most undoubtedly will do-...
the international environment is changing on a daily basis and probably one of the most significant things that will happen sometime in the ...
We recognize both the urgency... that our line needs to accelerate.
Everything we do every day takes any timeframe you have seen in a published report and makes it longer.
clearly that is nobody's preferred course of action, but the President has said and has repeatedly said that all options remain on the table
We think that, as we sit here today, the right thing to do is to proceed with a multilateral effort to isolate the Central Bank of Iran.
Our objective with Iran is for them not to have them and to lengthen the period of time for as long as possible that it will take them to ge...
President Ahmadinejad, himself, recently characterized our sanctions as 'the heaviest economic onslaught on a nation in history.'
American policy regarding Iran is clear: First and foremost, we are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
I think a couple of points. One, as the Under Secretary said, we absolutely share your sense of urgency and that time is not on our side.