Mr. Hassan-Yari, I was a little bit surprised at your comment suggesting that the dialogue that the U.S. is currently engaging in with Iran is actually putting the leadership on the defensive. I hadn't heard that before. I was wondering if you could provide further proof or evidence of that, because in fact I see the exact opposite. My sense from all the testimony that we've heard is that, if anything, this pretense of dialogue is providing them a cover to continue their nuclear enrichment activities. It's simply buying them time to do what they would do otherwise, and they're playing foreign nations as fools in attempting to simply limit themselves to dialogue. What evidence can you provide us that this is actually putting them on the defensive?
On June 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.