Officials want to use that pressure to flush fresh water out into the Gulf of Mexico to keep the oil offshore.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

"If we are serious about confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran, we have got to use all of the economic and diplomatic tools at our disposal to focus pressure on that country and its leadership to cause them to stop pursuing their plans to become a nuclear power,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20