[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 8, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H593]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS

  (Mr. DEUTCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DEUTCH. Madam Speaker, even as we stand here today, the 
centrifuges continue to spin in Iran, and their illicit nuclear weapons 
program forges ahead.
  Yet, they are more isolated today than they have ever been. I commend 
President Obama for his Executive order freezing the assets of the 
Central Bank of Iran and making it impossible to do business both with 
Iran and with the United States. I thank our Asian allies for reducing 
purchases of crude oil and slashing trade with Iran, and I commend our 
European allies, as well, for banning the import of Iranian crude. The 
Iranian economy is in shambles. As a result of these international 
efforts, its currency is plummeting and inflation is skyrocketing.
  I urge my colleagues, our friends across the way in the Senate, to 
pass tighter sanctions still to tighten the economic noose on the 
ayatollahs and to force them to give up their illicit nuclear 
ambitions. We must stand with the Iranian people even as their human 
rights are crushed by the Revolutionary Guard. In their quest for 
democracy, we stand with them. Our efforts are paying off, Madam 
Speaker, we cannot let up.

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