We will use the international standards, but we will not use an Iranian standard.

We also have made clear we reserve the right to put additional sanctions in place to address concerns about terrorism, human rights, and destabilization.

I think everyone here agrees that our first priority is to resolve international conflicts through diplomacy and use our military as the last resort.

I wanted to understand, because I hear they were not happy about Congress taking action.

We are going to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state. We are prepared to use our military option. But our preference is to use diplomacy.

We are not there yet. We are working very closely with the IAEA to make sure that they have full insight.

A lot of the activities in Iran are not new, and we should not expect that it will change.

I think it is important to point out we have had incredible participation by all the members of our committee during this month.

The Middle East is critically important to U.S. national security.

We entered into these diplomatic negotiations because of the significance of Iran in the Middle East.

The documents in question are traditional between the country and the IAEA and are kept confidential between the country, in this case Iran, and IAEA.

I want to see, and I think all of us here want to see, a strong agreement with Iran that will prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon and hold them accountable.

We made clear in the negotiations that we retained the ability and we were going to keep in place sanctions on terrorism.

As was the case during the Cold War, it is possible that meaningful diplomacy, combined with pressure, under the right conditions can yield positive results for U.S. national security.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Third, of course, is that we know Iran, one of its major targets is Israel, so making clear our commitment to Israeli security seems to me another matter that becomes a very important fact of congressional policy.

the most important thing that Congress can do is reestablish American deterrence.

We are not going to let them win, we are pushing for a negotiated settlement.

I think we envisioned it would be this way, but it was your leadership that really focused us and used our time in a most effective way.

I do not mean to interrupt but I want to focus on this.

It is important to note that the sanctions this Congress put in place are responsible for bringing Iran to the negotiating table.

How can we learn the lesson for how we impose sanctions for their nuclear activities and figure out a way that we can make our sanctions regime on ballistic missiles and on sponsoring terrorism and human rights violations more effective to…

I have said many times the agreement will be evaluated based on having ample time to discover through inspection if Iran is not complying with the agreement.

I do not deny that this administration or the next administration, whether it is a Democratic or Republican administration, will want to do things their way and will not particularly want Congress' advice on how to be tough on terrorism…

I hope we would all want to have this process be one that gives the Members of the U.S. Senate and the American people the information we need to make a determination.