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The fact is that his strongest sponsors, Iran and Russia, have both adopted at the United Nations ... an approach which dictates that there must be a political transition, and that we must move towards a presidential election at some point in time, if the regime and its backers think that they can test the boundaries, diminish compliance in certain areas or act in ways that call into question their commitment to the cessation, without serious consequences for the progress that we have made, they are deeply mistaken.