sponsors of terrorism in exchange for initial temporary assurances from north korea further undermines our efforts in dealing with the region we must stay focused on the nine draining machine the political and the diplomatic legitimacy to take knowledge of me and the resources to continue its destructive policy we are at a critical juncture and the opportunity for successful application of our sanctions has never been greater iran's economy is heavily dependent on its energy sector which required growing investment according to james stirrups of the heritage foundation he said made the following assessment during his testimony in front of our committee in january he said he ran for continuity is driven by well exports and we have indeed begun to have some effect on an oil production by our efforts effect of that action and simply not hide behind the un security council to avoid our own obligations these nations must show that they are committed to nonproliferation or face consequences in their relations with the united states at the crux of securing such commitment from other nations implementation of all sanctions under u s law namely burglary and sanctions act  the last few months there have been multiple approach or propose investment dealers in iran as the chairman pointed out in the rand energy sector that would be in violation of some of those whereas some of the firms include china's an extra credit agencies would help to subsidise these investments rather than make it clear to these entertains and their governments that we will implement the means sanctions that to the fullest extent the department of considered them whenever something  doesn't like to embrace and one solution being proposed to rein in sanctions sanctions sounds good but somebody cheats two countries are companies and it's all in the name of her money now we can take advantage of that national interest thank you for being with us thank you very much for your welcome this translate and thank you very much members of the committee i learned a lot just in listening to the comments of the various members made so thank you for the amount trying very hard to respond directly to each of the concerns that have been raised and there's a lot of i would take the opportunity to give you a summary of the nature outlines of our policy towards iran how we are trying to use multiple points of pressure to try to wrench your position where it wants to negotiate and not seek confrontation with the rest of the world particular over its nuclear weapons ambitions and i'll try to do that this group was i can so that you have a chance to ask the questions that you want to ask i will say mr chairman that we face our country faces a series of  interconnected crises in the middle east we haven't heard of a democratic and stable and peaceful iraq we have the imperative of strengthening the democratically elected government of lebanon against those like iran syria and h h who would seek to overturn that government we have in the sense of establishing the foundation of a final peace between the israeli and palestinian people and we're working on that as secretary rice and finally we  the peace and construct a country they refer specifically to suspend their enrichment and reprocessing activities at the plant at the times which is a condition for sitting down to talk to them now we are joined by the great majority of countries around the room in opposing this nuclear weapons ambition i have been the ones on to the chinese and russian and european governments for two years now and i've never encountered a single individual in any of those countries who believe their ransom tensions are at the same time allow them to continue down the path to achieve a nuclear weapons capability to develop syria or to produce a nuclear warhead so this is a condition not imposed by the united states it's a condition imposed by the united nations security council and it was written into the resolution the chapter seven sanctions resolution that we passed just before christmas you know last week i had three conversations with the representatives of all those governments china russia and then through european governments and we have a commitment to each other that we are now past a second chapter seven article forty one security council resolution in fact one of the liberations for that resolution began last evening in the united nations opinion countries we have not we had agreed on the specific nature of the sanctions for the second resolution that we had agreed that we must answer this blatant disregard for its obligations that iran has shown in the hope that this resolution can passed as quickly as possible and i think it's really interesting is last week the government of india and the government of brazil both announced implementing measures to put sanctions on iran because they are members states and the rest of the world iran is endeavoring to violence and instability in the middle east in fact is the central banker for middle east terrorism it's the funding for hamas and hezbollah it was responsible for providing the long range rockets that rained down on the people of northern israel and another last summer iran is a country that does not stand for peace between but palestinians and israelis and when the hamas leader  country in the middle east is consistently not supported the middle east peace negotiations consistently supported instead the middle east so responding here to a broad set of challenges on the nuclear front the terrorism be with you in your private sector that there are risks associated with that and some major european banks in the past have cut off all lending to iran as a consequence i think about this policy of  production plants don't think there's anything passively undermining first question and say that i'm convinced that we do have a united executive branch approach to iran that of course includes the great thing done by ambassador schwab first the difficulty that that we have and i think the clinton administration faces pertaining that name not be the best way to maintain the international coalition that we have built up since march of two thousand and five when we first decided that we would support  itself where sometimes we have an image about forbidding country like this of being monolithic and as i said in my remarks it's anything but there's a great political debate underway as far as we can tell you know on scene at the highest is on most of the day incursion into iran we also have initiated exchange programs if i governments can't meet and have formal diplomatic relations and we haven't had that with iran since one nine hundred seventy nine long time  separate hearings by the human rights council against israel but not against burma and not against him by the way not against north korea and not against iran and your right to call attention to the deplorable human rights practices inside iran government and today released because congress of course under congressional mandate my annual human rights report sent it to every member and set of accusations that we make against the government and i'd be happy to talk about that if you'd they have they have it's just criticism of the international community and i will continue w for your diligence and hard work i give you a hard time sometimes but i wish everybody a dime sometimes but i want to know that we're very grateful for the effort put out by you in the members of the state department to try to  as you say bring peace to this troubled region in a way that's consistent with our national security interests i'd like to ask you a specific russian general question about the m  about the iranian government providing explosive devices to those elements in iraq that are killing american soldiers that we need to address that i'm very supportive of the administration's efforts really concerned with those forces that we can see that are providing technology to kill my soldiers and you know the indian government has provided that technology as president bush said back on financing this insurgency i think yours is not going to help us bring it to an end but i want to congratulate you for all the hard work that you are doing is really a palestinian issues the other lebanon issues that you've raised and  in some of the countries that are active like united states in iraq to see if we can help to promote the political stability of the country support the government and the ethnic conflicts that in the beginning stages i think you are right to focus on the financial issues we're trying to remove together multiple pressure points on iran the carrier battle groups in the gulf push back against going in iraq that we've done over the last month the security council sanctions most people now think that the most effective instrument we have the financial instruments it's the combination of treasuries and it's patriot act to to sanction banks now banks out and banks out in the next security council resolution in new york iran needs and wants integration is not a country like north korea but willing to live in isolation it wants investment it wants it used to employ it sixty percent of its was the best decision for our country student demonstrations against him there is widespread unhappiness among those who prize democracy and human rights but his government has been grossly intolerant of those human rights and most interesting as i mentioned smart a man meeting the first approach that iraq has made and the government has made it to iran or have there been other attempts to act on what the prime governments attempted to reach out to be ringing government in this fashion but i believe it's probably the first significant attempt that we've seen and it's now this positive response from a number of countries including around and what we hope is that this can be a farm that will produce stability and i sat there with asked a very important question how does a ram like going to react based on its present policies iran is not acting responsibly it's not a country that has done what most of us have done and that's  for the three major ethnic groups to get together for the state to be held together has tended to favor its relations with the sheer population and the connections between the shia leaders and iran are quite extensive because many of them took refuge as you know in iran during and government is there any evidence that they are interested in you at this point i have seen no evidence that they have stopped providing the type of technology where i talked about advantage i want to get your comment about the poppy crop production in afghanistan you know where some common ground areas they are in terms of ping pong diplomacy is just wrestling which tends to be the common denominator you know radical stablish ment's suggested something very interesting and that is that iran is not pointed at the taliban in afghanistan anyway and is being