[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 173 (Friday, November 3, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S16674]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            IRANIAN BEHAVIOR

 Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, I rise today to comment on Iranian 
behavior and the continued need for sanctions to be placed upon this 
barbarous regime.
  The Iranian regime's stubborn insistence on actions which only serve 
to isolate that nation and its people, threaten to cast Iran into total 
deprivation. The sponsorship of international terrorism, continued 
efforts to build weapons of mass destruction, and human rights 
violations against innocent Iranians, threaten to throw the country 
back into medieval times, where all the technology of the West and the 
ease of our daily life will be absent from the Iranian nation, due 
directly to the abusive rule of this primitive regime.
  Iran is isolated and universally viewed as a pariah state. Its 
actions are abhorrent to the civilized world. As long as this warped, 
terroristic regime continues to punish the Iranian people with its 
misrule, this condition will continue. The tyrants in Tehran must 
understand their aggression and abuse of the good people of Iran will 
not last, and one day they will be brought to task for their actions.
  While the tyrants continue to rule in Tehran, sanctions are a clear 
way to keep up the pressure on Iran and to deny them the ability to 
carry out their aggression on the outside world as well as against 
their own people. We do not take these issues lightly. It is a pity 
that the regime cannot act like a civilized country and not be so 
abusive. If only Iran would not conduct these brutal actions, we would 
not have to place sanctions on it.

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