"There has been no agreement between the United States and Iran nor the subcommittee chairmen and the Bush administration, and what emerged from the hearing was probably not unlike the tenor of the international negotiations themselves, with two sides talking seriously about an issue of overriding international concern but neither side budging...
... Members badgered and begged the two witnesses — Jeffrey Feltman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs for the State Department, and Daniel Glaser, deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes at the Treasury Department — to offer the slightest evidence that administration efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program had showed any signs of progress. With each increasingly agitated question, the witnesses’ positions only grew more entrenched...."
... Members badgered and begged the two witnesses — Jeffrey Feltman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs for the State Department, and Daniel Glaser, deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes at the Treasury Department — to offer the slightest evidence that administration efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program had showed any signs of progress. With each increasingly agitated question, the witnesses’ positions only grew more entrenched...."
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