Ed Markey

A country that flares off 13 nuclear power plants equivalents of natural gas each year obviously does not have many practical needs for multiple new nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

If the IAEA determines that there are compliance concerns, will you ensure such concerns are reported promptly to the American people and to Congress?

So, basically, we have an agreement that allows them--they stop in an area that they have already perfected--that allows them to continue on in other areas to be able to deliver nuclear weapons that is not even addressed by this interim…

A final agreement that mothballs Iran's infrastructure, or fundamentally preserves their ability to easily break out, is not a final agreement I can support.

I think it is important that the ratio stay one-to-one, so the confiscation of the old centrifuges ensure that they just not go to a garage, get fixed immediately, and are now being installed.

I think it would be very important for confidence-building, in the United States and around the world, that it be much more frequent than the IAEA has already announced it intends on making public.

The iceberg of sanctions is melting while our centrifuges are also still working. This is our greatest achievement.

This is not a nothing-ventured-nothing-gained enterprise.

I hope that you will clearly lay out what the end state is, because I think that is what so many of us are concerned about.

At the end of the day, any final deal must require Iran to dismantle large portions of its nuclear infrastructure.

I think people would say that if they want to be a nuclear state, they can be that very quickly.

I just think it is very important for our administration to say to each of these countries that, if there is no comprehensive agreement, that, not only is the window going to be shut on this trade, and that the United States is going to…

A real advantage of the 123 process today is consent rights.

Right now, the United States is at a disadvantage in the market.

I think a little bit more transparency on the process would be good for everybody.

If we lower it, that they can renegotiate and they can go lower.

The UAE is the gold standard; Vietnam is not the gold standard.

That is why it has been and should continue to be U.S. policy to limit the spread of enrichments and reprocessing around the world.

There is a fine line between peaceful nuclear energy programs producing megawatts of electricity and a deadly nuclear weapons program producing megatons that can threaten the whole world.

We should just be humble here. Iraq, Iran, North Korea. We are now living with the consequences of not having a high standard internationally on the transfer of nuclear technologies.

The United States strongly condemns violations of the cease-fire and deeply regrets the loss of life that resulted from these incidents along the Line of Contact.

Facilitating regional integration is a particular priority for the United States.

If confirmed as Ambassador, I, too, will strongly advocate for de-escalating tensions and preparing the public for a peace the people of Armenia and Azerbaijan deserve.

We believe regional integration is in the economic interest of all three countries and certainly in our interest.

We continue to call on the Azerbaijani authorities to strengthen due process, and judicial independence, ensure freedoms of assembly, association, and expression, and support an open, vibrant, and peaceful civil society.