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The Atlantic Council. Welcome to everyone here and those who are watching as when he spent in her lifestream, i name is william. I laid the Atlantic Council work on the middle east. Im delighted to welcome you here today to if it cohosted by our strategy and security in our Global Business and economics programs economic sanctions initiative. This if it is on the record. Please tweet if you know so inclined and if so, please use the hashtag shaping sanctions. Today we are here of course to learn more about asthma and its finances. When he is one of the most sophisticated in the middle east. Iran patron has reportedly provided terrorist group we put hundreds of millions of dollars. Annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, undermining weapons political system and its delegate secretary and balance. Challenging the world lebanese as the sole legitimate protector of the security. Providing on demand Ground Forces work irans work in syria. Maintaining a toptier terrorist capabi
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Of South Carolina led the hearing. [taps gavel] all right. Hearing is setting members up for success. I now recognize myself or five minutes to give an opening statement. As is usually the case im not going to take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you who have attended past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i