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This House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing is an hour and a half. We will now call a hearing to order. This is a very important hearing in my opinion. Some of them are not nearly as important as others. This one is extremely important because greg and i, the Ranking Member, we are all concerned about the influence of iran in the entire region, also in the gulf region. So today we are here to discuss the expanding influence in the south caucasus, but were also talking about, i intend to talk about some of the problems in the Persian Gulf Region because thats a vital interest to us. The straits of hormuz, persian gulf, or the swiss canal are blocked in any way they could have devastating impact on the United States because we still get a large part of our energy from the region. I traveled to azerbaijan an armenian in early september. And i also stopped in georgia and met with the president. When i talked to these leaders, iran was one of the things that came up at the very beginnin

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