[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 81 (Friday, June 17, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H4658]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          ELECTION DAY IN IRAN

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, today is election day in Iran. As cochair of 
the Iran Study Group, with my colleague the gentleman from New Jersey 
(Mr. Andrews), we saw 1,000 people stand for the Presidency of Iran. 
But the Guardian Council only allowed eight candidates to actually run.
  We expect that Rafsanjani will win this election today, and when we 
does, with less than half of the Iranian people voting, he will have a 
choice before him and his nation: whether to continue Iran's policy of 
lying to the U.N. about its nuclear weapon program, of supporting 
terror, and continuing a policy of economic isolation and stagnation, 
or rejoining the international community and spurring economic growth 
in a new Iran as part of a worldwide community that does not support 
terror.
  Mr. Speaker, we hope, we hope, that the new Iranian Government 
chooses wisely.

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