[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 27 (Friday, February 17, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE IRANIAN REGIME

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Mr. Speaker, in stopping a nuclear-armed Iran, 2012 will be 
as critical a year as ever, and that's a fact. But we here in this 
Chamber speak as one. With a bipartisan, unambiguous voice, we can 
drive the conversation all around the world, and that does mean 
something because the United States must lead the world. It is an 
abdication of our responsibility and leadership if we leave the Iranian 
threat to anyone else.
  This Iranian regime is already the leading state sponsor of terrorism 
in the world. They bear responsibility for killing American soldiers in 
Iraq and Afghanistan. They fuel Assad's slaughter in Syria. They were 
behind the recently foiled assassination plot right here on American 
soil in Washington, D.C. Now imagine what they would do under a nuclear 
umbrella of their own.
  This is why we, this Congress, and this administration must 
anticipate what comes next. We must clearly establish that containment 
has no place at the table. Such a policy places us at the mercy of a 
madman, and it would unleash unparalleled consequences the likes of 
which the world has never seen. This is what's at stake.

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