[国会纪录：2007年12月4日（参议院）] [Page S14729-S14730]伊朗哈格先生。主席先生，昨日主席团迈克麦凯纳·迈克·麦凯内尔国家智能局长发布了伊朗核武器计划的全国情报估计。This NIE, which represents the best collective judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, told us: Our intelligence community has concluded with high confidence that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. This is a major reversal of the intelligence community's previous intelligence assessment in 2005 that Iran was determined to develop nuclear weapons. The NIE states that the nuclear weapons program was halted primarily in response to international pressure, which suggests that Iran may be more vulnerable to influence. Perhaps most significant is the DNI's conclusion that some combination of threats of intensified scrutiny and pressures, along with opportunities for Iran to achieve its security, prestige, and goals might prompt Tehran to extend the current halt to its nuclear weapons program. I commend Admiral McConnell and his colleagues for their decision to release未分类的结论（PDF）基于此目前的智能。我不相信我们可以夸大这一新信息的重要性。这只聂的效果将在整个欧洲，整个中东，世界和伊朗的联合国感受到这里。NIE与内部原子能机构，国际原子能机构，国际组织的结论非常相似，以最直接的地面接入伊朗的核设施。再一次，事实似乎突出了原子能机构的结论。这个聂以及国际原子能机构的分析应该有助于为伊朗提供通知和塑造美国战略。布什总统有责任仔细考虑有关伊朗与这一新信息的政策影响，我知道他会。他今天早上在他的新闻发布会中说，这种新的信息，他对伊朗的政策有所信任。根据这一新智力和基于事实的评估，美国必须对伊朗进行明确和战略政策，以避免伊拉克灾难性错误。昨天的聂不会使以往努力使用国际对伊朗压力共识的努力的有效性无效。 We must be careful not to run from one end of the pendulum all the way to the other. As President Bush noted again this morning, the United States must continue to work with our friends and our allies to sustain an international consensus on Iran. I believe the President is correct: alliances, common purpose, common interests, focus, discipline. Iran's objectionable words and actions are real, and they must continue to be addressed. That means a very clear-eyed and realistic sense of Iran and its motives. As I said in my November 8 CSIS speech regarding U.S.-Iran policy, the United States must employ a comprehensive strategy regarding Iran: Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the Middle East, a regional comprehensive strategy. Yesterday's NIE reinforces the need for directed, unconditional, and comprehensive engagement with Iran. The United States and the international community must use all--all--elements of our foreign policy arsenal in offering direct, unconditional, and comprehensive talks with Iran. The United States should be clear that all issues, our issues and Iran's issues, are on the table, including offering Iran a credible way back from the fringes of the international community, security guarantees, and other incentives. We urgently need to adopt a comprehensive strategy on Iran that is focused on direct engagement and diplomacy backed, as diplomacy must always be backed, by the leverage of international pressure, isolation, containment, and military options. The United States must employ wise statecraft to redirect deepening tensions with Iran toward a higher ground of resolution. That is what Annapolis was about last week. America is the great power here. Iran is not the great power. We must be the more mature country in testing the proposition that the United States and Iran can overcome decades of mutual mistrust, suspicion, and hostility. That is diplomacy. Diplomacy is not talking to your friends; diplomacy is not giving another country bonus points for us talking to them. There is a reason for diplomacy. We should not squander this opportunity as we did in the spring of 2003 when we had an opportunity for an opening to explore talks with Iran. This initiative, by the way, in 2003, came from Iran. We are witnessing a confluence of events in the Middle East and around the world that presents the United States with new opportunities. There are hopeful and positive recent developments: Progress on North Korea's nuclear weapons program; the recent regional meeting in Istanbul on Iraq; the momentum generated by last week's Annapolis Middle East meeting where all Arab countries, including Syria, sat at the same table with Israel; and yesterday's NIE assessment. Now is the time for America to act and to lead, and to lead boldly, with confidence, with our allies, focusing on a common purpose. One dimensional optics, policies, and blunt black-or-white rhetoric, such as ``you are either with us or you are against us'' will not work, haven't worked, and will fall short of what is expected from American leadership in the eyes of the world. The world faces challenges and opportunities today that carry with it implications well beyond this moment in time. American leadership is once again being called on at yet another transformational time in history to help set a new course, a new framework for a rudderless world drifting in a sea of combustible dangers. In engaging Iran, the Middle East, and the world, we must be wide in our scope, clear in our purpose, measured in our words, and strong in our actions. Yesterday's NIE should not be overstated, but it also must not be undervalued in shaping future policy with Iran and in the Middle East. Make no mistake, the NIE sets in motion a series of ripple effects that will have serious consequences. This should be welcome news for the United States and the world. Mr. President, I thank you, yield the floor, and suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Whitehouse). The clerk will call the roll of the Senate. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________