Thomas M. Countryman: “We have become, I would say, dangerously uncompetitive on the nuclear sphere when we cannot compete with countries like…”

The implementation of the Framework could not have been achieved absent the serious consideration of the use of force by the United States.

We would argue that any effort to step away from JCPOA would reopen a Pandora's box in that region that we do not think we could close again.

This would become an issue of extraordinary concern and division between ourselves and our P5+1 colleagues.

This agreement advances the primary goal we have in every 123 agreement, which is strengthening the longstanding nonproliferation policy of successive administrations.