[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 76 (Tuesday, May 9, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S6366]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                             REGARDING IRAN

 Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the 
ongoing situation in Iran.
  Clearly, the situation in Iran today is one of desperation. The 
Iranian people, suffering the depredations of 16 years of rule by a 
corrupt, terrorist, regime, deserve better. They deserve to have a 
government that respects the rich and dignified history of the Iranian 
people. Unfortunately, what they have gotten is a government that 
violates their human rights and has brought a formerly rich and varied 
economy down upon the shoulders of the people, suffocating them.
  While we know that the regime in Teheran practices terrorism with 
great frequency throughout the world, most people forget that they also 
inflict terror against their own people. If they will torture and 
execute their own people, what respect will they have for those of 
other nations?
  Mr. President, today we must understand one simple fact: the 
terrorist regime in Iran does not represent the Iranian people. It 
represents murder, terror, and destruction, nothing more and nothing 
less. The Iranian people deserve better, and they deserve freedom from 
the corrupt rule of the terrorist regime that calls itself the 
Government of Iran.


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