Ben Cardin: “I think we all would acknowledge that prior to the nuclear agreement, Iran's economy was in pretty bad shape.”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well

We need to consider how we deal with that.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.