Obama Administration Iran Strategy
Remarks by Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey
This audience is already well-versed in the history of U.S.-Iran relations and the challenges we continue to face as we try to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and supporting terrorism. As we all know, Iran has failed to respond meaningfully to offers of engagement by the United States and others in the international community and has continued to defy multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions (UNSCRs). While the offer of engagement still stands, the United States and the international community have been forced to impose additional consequences on Iran. The objective of that pressure is to sharpen the choice…