Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program

Delegation led by Representative Howard L. Berman Discusses Iranian Nuclear Proliferation with Chinese Officials (Excerpts)
Members' Letters, Reports & Statements
August 20, 2009
Beijing - Led by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), a bipartisan delegation of members of Congress discussed an array of issues of interest to both China and the United States, ranging from regional security concerns to the environment. "The bilateral relationship has made remarkable progress over the last thirty...
Prepared Testimony by Nicholas Burns Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 31, 2009
After four years in power, it is clear that the Ahmadinejad government is seeking a dominant role in the Middle East. It is pursuing with great energy a future nuclear weapons capability that would threaten Israel and our Arab partners. It continues to support the most destructive and vile terrorist groups in the region. It plays an influential...
Prepared Statement by Senator Mike Johanns Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
The Obama Administration came into office promising to extend its hand to nations that it felt had been unnecessarily threatened and bullied under the previous administration. In March, the President made a direct address to the Iranian nation, in which he sought to offer the Iranian government legitimacy as an equal partner in constructive...
Prepared Statement by Senator Christopher Dodd Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
The new Obama Administration has undertaken an aggressive dual-track approach—offering high-level engagement with Tehran and sustained pressure through economic sanctions -- while warning that Iran, as Secretary Gates said this week, “won’t be allowed to run out the clock.” 
Prepared Testimony by Senator Joseph Lieberman Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
As of this morning, no less than 71 members of the Senate have joined together as cosponsors of S. 908. This includes both some of our most liberal and some of our most conservative colleagues—Senators who do not see eye-to-eye on many issues. And that is precisely the point. 
Prepared Testimony by Dr. Matthew Levitt Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
As a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who participated in the department’s outreach to the private sector as early as 2006, I am often asked why I support the use of targeted financial measures – both formal sanctions and informal outreach to the private sector – if the use of these tools has not stopped Iran from pursuing a...
Prepared Testimony by Suzanne Maloney Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
With turmoil on the streets and in the corridors of power, Iran’s perennially unpredictable politics have moved into uncharted territory in the wake of the shameless manipulation of last month’s presidential elections. Unrest within Iran is hardly unprecedented; Iran has experienced ethnic rebellions, labor actions, student protests,...
Prepared Testimony by Danielle Pletka Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
For the first seven months of this year,the Congress has been extraordinarily deferential to President Obama, and has been careful to do nothing that might undercut the prospects for success in the direct diplomacy with Iran that he has promised, such as mandating the imposition of new sanctions. And despite Iran’s continued defiance of the...
Prepared Statement by Senator Richard Shelby Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
Once again, the Committee meets to hear testimony on Iran’s support for terrorism and its determination to develop a nuclear capability. This time, however, we meet at a time that is marked by weeks of unprecedented social, economic, and political upheaval in Iran.
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
Hearings & Prepared Statements
July 30, 2009
SEN. BAYH: (Off mike). Great. Thank you. I'm grateful that you're interested in what I'm saying, Bob. (Laughter.) SEN. LIEBERMAN: It's very good to see the spirit of bipartisanship at the outset. SEN. BAYH: Absolutely. No one goes without an adequate hearing in the Banking Committee. Thank you. Thank you, Senator.

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