I appreciate the serious risks that U.S. travelers to Iran may encounter and have welcomed the State Department's Level 4 travel advisory warning Americans not to travel to Iran.

I support this bill and the important strategy requirements it contains and urge my colleagues to do so as well.

This bill seeks to build on important diplomatic progress the Biden Administration has sought to expand on and deepen as we face continued and persistent threats from Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.

I think that we are all unanimously in accord with that.

The options to stop it from advancing even further to weapons grade are even more limited.

And that is part of the reason why our policies, I believe, have been flawed.

We have got to take the hard votes ourself.

Don't count the years, make the days count.

I again underscore and emphasize, as I did in 2022, look, for us to do our job, we have to have the report.

But that is where we are now.

For them, for us, the phrase 'Never forget' is as much a memorial as it is daily reality.