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QUESTION: And on the nuclear issue, Britain's Times newspaper is reporting today that confidential intelligence documents indicate Iran is testing a trigger for a nuclear bomb. Does the U.S. have any intelligence to back this up? And if it's true, what does it tell us about where the Iranians are with their nuclear program?

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SECRETARY CLINTON: With respect to your second question, I will not comment on any intelligence. But I will say that the concerns that we have regarding Iranian intentions with their nuclear program have been heightened already in the last months with the disclosure of the concealed facility at Qom, with the failure of the Iranians to follow through on the negotiations over their highly enriched uranium for the Tehran research reactor, which they had agreed in principle to ship out of the country for reprocessing. Certainly, the recent announcement by their parliament that they intend to build 10 or 20 more nuclear plants should raise deep concerns among all people. And the minister and I discussed this at some length.

We have pursued, under President Obama's direction, a dual-track approach to Iran. We have reached out. We have offered the opportunity to engage in meaningful, serious discussions with our Iranian counterparts. We have joined fully in the P-5+1 process. We've been at the table. But I don't think anyone can doubt that our outreach has produced very little in terms of any kind of positive response from the Iranians.

The second track of our dual-track strategy is to bring the international community together to stand in a united front against the Iranians and to try to impress upon them the importance of changing their actions and decisions concerning the nuclear program, and certainly additional pressure is going to be called for in order to do that.

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