our next beach speaker is richard goldberg. he is the senior advisor at the foundation for defense of democracies, he's a former senior senate aide and was a lead author and negotiator of the toughest sanctions leveled against iran from 2011 to 2013. richard worked for years on ballistic missile defense cooperation with israel to defend against iranian missiles and led efforts to impose sanctions on iran for the regime's abuse of human rights. separately, he is a navy reserve intel officer with service on the joint staff and in afghanistan. richard? richard: honor to be a pure with my fellow panelists. i think it is important before moving forward to look backwards just a couple years. all too often it is what is just in front of us in washington and the debate gets wrapped up in politics. when we talk about whether or not the president should leave the deal, what the israeli intelligence findings mean, it is important to understand how we got into the deal to begin with. i'm not a historian, but i lived through this history an

other questions we are fortunate to have with us a panel of distinguished experts including richard goldberg of the foundation for defense of democracies and Élan berman of the foreign policy council. our first speaker is michael ruben, a resident scholar of the american enterprise institute and former iran desk officer in the office of the secretary of defense and a senior lecturer at the naval postgraduate school department of national security affairs and it lists in the foreign military studies office. in addition to his policy work he has authored a number of books, encyclopedia of injuries about iran. >> let me mention there are things we know. a lot of the press is focusing on whether the tremendous probe in german and yahoo presented presented new material, let me present other issues we know to be true. the iran foreign minister said repeatedly, that iran had no nuclear program, it was a figment of western imagination. 100,000 documents suggest he is a constant liar. being able to speak english to the secretary of state is not a magic formula that proves someone's and 30. we have be

goldberg. ance everette and guthrie lee. rmbaugh e to rebelwood and richard vandegier, the last casualties on may 15th, 1975. and we're here to remember all those who died operating helicopters. .ll 4,877 we salute their service and we'll never forget their sacrifice. the monument now serves as their legacy in this place of honor, articlington national cemetery. it's fitting to place the marker here, surrounded by the heroes of many wars and conflicts. and we are grateful to those who accomplished the work of designing the monument, who crafted the proposals and patiently carried the effort from concept to completion. there are many to thank. i wish to thank those members of e vietnam helicopter pilots' association legacy committee who performed much of the work leading to this monument. i asked them to stand and be recognized. they deserve our applause. [applause] thank you. you may be seat. i wish to recognize the people on the day of. i ask that you hold your applause until all of them have been recognized. first of all, major general retired carl mcnair,