Full Committee Hearing

Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Economic Sanctions and Other US Policy Options

Date:   Thursday, July 30, 2009 Time:   10:00 AM

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The witness on Panel I will be: The Honorable Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), United States Senator. The witnesses on Panel II will be: Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Dr. Matthew Levitt, Director, Stein Center on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Dr. Suzanne Maloney, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; and Ms. Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute.

Witnesses

Majority Statements

  1. Senator Christopher J. Dodd
  2. Senator Evan Bayh

Minority Statements

  1. Senator Richard C. Shelby
  2. Senator Mike Johanns

Witness Panel 1

  1. Joseph Lieberman

Witness Panel 2

  1. Ambassador Nicholas Burns
    Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government
    Harvard University
  2. Dr. Matthew Levitt
    Director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
    Washington Institute for Near East Policy
  3. Dr. Suzanne Maloney
    Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
    The Brookings Institution
  4. Ms. Danielle Pletka
    Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies
    American Enterprise Institute