Thomas M. Countryman: “This would become an issue of extraordinary concern and division between ourselves and our P5+1 colleagues.”

I emphasized again the necessity to stand strong on preventing the shipment of technology in ballistic missiles to Iran.

I would like to see this administration and this Congress make a long-term commitment to steadily expanded resources for the International Atomic Energy Agency because, yes, it is that central to U.S. security and to global security.

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

In an environment as conflictive and combustible as the Middle East, making sure that a country like Iran does not have a nuclear weapon has to be a strategic goal of utmost importance.