[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 47 (Thursday, March 19, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H1798-H1800]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of
January 6, 2015, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Gohmert) for 30 minutes.
Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, the story out in a number of media, like
this from Breitbart, ``First Details of Iran Deal: Allows 6,000
Centrifuges, Rolls Back the U.N. Arms Embargo.'' That story talks about
in order to entice Iran to cut back to 6,000 or 6,500 centrifuges,
elements of the U.N. arms embargo against Iran could be rolled back.
I think it is important to recall, it hasn't been that long ago that
a principal cornerstone of the discussions between the Obama
administration and the--I have to be careful the words I use here on
the House floor--America-killing Iran administration was going to
require them to dismantle their efforts toward nuclear production, and
now they are floating a draft that is going to allow them to have
thousands of centrifuges.
Now, I have been advised by people at the IAEA in Vienna that,
actually, if they just have 3,000 centrifuges, with all of the uranium
that has been enriched to 5 percent, they only need 3,000 to take it up
to 90 percent. Once you are at 5 percent, it seems like it would be a
long way to get to 90, but actually it is just a matter of weeks.
You could do it easily in a facility that would be easy to hide,
because you could take those 3,000 in a facility 30 meters by 70 meters
and you could enrich from 5 to 90 percent at weapons grade uranium,
have the nukes that at least at one time Ayatollah Khamenei has
indicated--I understand still believes--that they can hasten the return
of the 12th imam, the Mahdi, to rule over this world caliphate, and
they can do so because they believe the prophecy is that he will
arise--the 12th imam, as the Mahdi, the head of the caliphate, this
world caliphate, he will arise out of chaos, and they believe that
could be nuclear chaos.
So, in effect, if this administration agrees to allow even 1,500
centrifuges to continue to spin in Iran, he is hastening the demise of
millions of people, ultimately. A new Holocaust. Now, it is one thing
when leaders in the United States could say, ``Gee, we didn't know that
millions of Jews were being killed by Hitler; gee, we just didn't
know,'' but there came a point where it became very clear, and Hitler
and his subordinates really tried to hide what they were doing.
Iran has made no bones about what they want to do. They want to wipe
Israel off the map. First of all, they are never going to eliminate all
of the Jews in the world; it will not happen. As God is my witness,
that will not happen. What will happen, as anybody, including this
administration, if they are intent on going there, to allow Iran to
continue to move toward nuclear weapons under this so-called nuclear
agreement, they move there, it will cause judgment to come down on our
country for allowing something so horrific to become possible when we
had the means to stop it.
This is no time for anyone who is a civilized individual, who
believes in the rights of men, the rights of women, the rights of
children, to be cutting a deal with these cutthroats in Iran. Nobody
seems to want to talk about it, but Iran has drug this thing out for
over a year.
Perhaps Valerie Jarrett was working a deal even longer than that.
There were reports that she was negotiating with them early on, trying
to see if something could be done. Whether that is true or not, clearly
what Iran has done is drug out the talks, continued to increase the
number of centrifuges it has spinning, continued to move toward the
ability to have a tremendous amount of 5 percent enrichment so that it
very quickly can move to 90 percent and develop the nukes.
They would likely develop a number of them at the same time, not just
do one. They would do a number and then spread them out so that, once
they move into nuclear mode, they have several. You try to take them
out at that point; you are going to find one or more of them in cities
that you care about. So we should never allow that to even become
possible.
When I see this deal, I see all these articles about it, then I see
this article ``Obama Planning Drastic Shake-Up in Policy Toward
Israel.'' So because the people of Israel, in their election, made
clear, ``We would prefer not to be wiped out by Iran, and we can tell
that the deal that the Obama administration is cutting is bad for
Israel and puts us at extreme risk,'' they gave more seats than were
expected to the Likud Party, Netanyahu's party.
What is the response of the Obama administration after they threw
everything they possibly could, threw temper tantrums about Prime
Minister Netanyahu speaking from right here just to tell us his
perspective on the Iranian deal because his country is most at risk?
Those that refused to understand--it isn't just Israel at risk--may pay
at the cost of thousands or millions of lives. These people have no
respect for the lives of people who are not radical Islamists, as they
are.
So you might think: Oh, gee, maybe the Obama administration learned a
lesson; let's don't try to interfere in the election process in a
foreign country. It does make you wonder, you know, there were all
those rumors about since the Obama money was never audited in his
original campaign in 2008 and there were massive numbers of $50
contributions with credit cards, where did those come from? Were any of
those foreign?
We have seen allegations about money coming in to Hillary Clinton's
campaign from foreigners. We know in Bill Clinton's campaign they got
caught redhanded with money from monks that was given to Vice President
Al Gore, but, you know, foreigners are not supposed to be able to
influence our elections. It appears that potentially they have.
If that were true--don't know for certain because there wasn't an
audit done, but maybe that would help explain why this administration
is so quick to get involved in the election process in Israel to try to
destroy Netanyahu, who was more concerned with the preservation of the
nation of Israel than he was in getting another Nobel Peace Prize for
this administration.
But this, dated today, by Melanie Batley says:
The White House on Wednesday suggested it could reverse its
decades-old policy of using its veto in the United Nations
Security Council to protect Israel. It could refuse to veto
resolutions related to the Palestinians or introduce a
measure of its own, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The U.S. could also lend its support to a two-state
solution based on Israel's 1967 borders, a senior White House
official told The New York Times: ``We're currently
evaluating our approach,'' State Department spokeswoman Jen
Psaki said, according to the Journal. ``We're not going to
prejudge what we would do if there was a U.N. action.''
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She should have said ``if there were,'' but she said ``if there
was.''
The article also says:
The Obama administration in the past has shielded Israel at
the Security Council, using a veto to strike down a
resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity in
Palestinian territory.
Now, Obama officials may decide to allow Israel to be
exposed to more international pressure in an attempt to
force them back into negotiating.
This is what I would call a deal to hasten the attempted demise of
Israel.
It is interesting, though, ``We're currently evaluating our
approach,'' the State Department said, because we were told by a Muslim
Brothers publication in December of 2012 that--yes, I believe it was
2012. It was before the fall of Muslim Brother Morsi as President of
Egypt, but it was a Muslim Brothers-approved publication in Egypt that
bragged about the six top advisers in the Obama administration who they
bragged were Muslim Brothers.
Now, some in the media don't want to do anything but vilify me for
pointing out what the Muslim Brothers have pointed out, but for a
number of years I tried to advise the Homeland Security Department that
you have elevated a man to the top advisory council, given him a secret
security clearance, allowed him to access documents, which I was told
by people, I believe, including the director of DPS in Texas, that we
know that this man downloaded two documents. We know he downloaded them
with his personal computer at his home, and then the report from
Patrick Poole, the reporter, that he had direct indication from a
national media outlet that Mr. Elibiary had shopped those documents to
this national media outlet, who happened to refuse.
I asked Secretary Napolitano about it. She said she knew nothing
about it. That was interesting, because her chief told the director of
Texas Department of Public Safety the night before, who advised me the
night before, that she had been totally briefed on what Elibiary had
done. When I brought it up the next day, either she lied in front of
our committee or her close staff member lied to the Department of
Public Safety director in Texas the night before.
But we do know this. Later when I again asked her about it and if it
had been investigated, she said that DHS had looked into it and there
was nothing to it. Yet, when there was a FOIA request for the documents
pertaining to the investigation, there were no documents that supported
that there ever was an investigation. So either, again, the Department
of Homeland Security Secretary lied, committed a crime, or DHS lied and
there were documents about that investigation.
In any event, last September, the Homeland Security Department, after
years of being warned about this person they kept elevating, after one
of the ISIS videos hit television and showed the Islamic State cutting
off the head of an American, this top adviser to our Homeland Security
Department tweeted out, basically, the caliphate's inevitable; people
just need to get used to the idea. That was the basis of it. So at
Homeland Security, they allowed him to go ahead and not be renewed as a
top adviser to Homeland Security.
We also know that Imam Magid, who had been head of the Islamic
Society of North America, which Islamic Society of North America was
aimed as a co-conspirator in the largest prosecution for supporting
terrorism in the history of the United States in going after the Holy
Land Foundation in Dallas, Texas, Federal Court. The Islamic Society of
North America was named as a co-conspirator, as was the Council of
American Islamic Relations, CAIR.
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Although, we saw a story last year where they were thinking about
changing their name to--I forget what the words were--but instead of
CAIR, it would be WTF. I guess they thought better of having WTF be
their symbolic letters representing who they are.
In any event, CAIR, ISNA, they were named coconspirators in the Holy
Land Foundation trial. When an effort was made to remove their names
from being listed as coconspirators, the judge in the Federal court
there in Dallas reviewed the evidence and said, No, there is evidence
that supports having their names as coconspirators.
They appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for the United
States and all those judges looked at it and said, No, there is plenty
of evidence here to support that these groups are coconspirators with
the Holy Land Foundation--whose principals were convicted of supporting
terrorism and sent to prison.
This administration gets sworn in within 2 months of the conviction,
and instead of being careful about these groups that U.S. Federal
courts had said we had plenty of evidence to show that they support
terrorism, this administration neglected--refused--to consider that
because they thought they knew better.
They brought the leaders of CAIR and ISNA into the realm of their
close advisers; so is it any mystery that when Prime Minister Netanyahu
was coming to Washington in May of 2011, the President sought advice--
got advice--from the leader of this named coconspirator supporting
terrorism, Imam Magid?
When the President gave this speech in the State Department itself,
Imam Magid was there. This administration had obviously given him
credentials to allow him not only in the White House, but in the inner
sanctum of the State Department.
When I read, ``We are currently evaluating our approach,'' from the
State Department, I can't help but wonder: Have you got Imam Magid in
there--which this Egyptian Muslim Brother-approved article said was a
Muslim Brother, a top adviser--have you got him in there helping advise
you on how to go after Netanyahu and how to put Israel more at risk
than you already have?
``We are evaluating our approach'' scares me--should scare others--
when you know the kind of people that are giving this administration
advice.
This article says:
The Obama administration in the past has shielded Israel at
the Security Council, using a veto to strike down a
resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity in
Palestinian territory. Now, Obama officials may decide to
allow Israel to be exposed to more international pressure in
an attempt to force them back into negotiating a peace deal.
Well, Israel has eyes wide open as Iran continues to spin centrifuges
and enrich uranium. They understand that their very existence is at
risk; yet we have people here in Washington--this administration--that
apparently are hearing from people saying, Oh, no, it's no problem.
Israel is the real problem here.
Never mind the people that are advising this administration are more
upset with Israel wanting to continue to exist than they are with Iran
for wanting to wipe out Israel and the United States.
This should scare people in the United States because, as Prime
Minister Netanyahu pointed out--though he didn't have to--he cares
about the United States. He was educated here. He would like to see us
continue to exist and be friends with Israel.
He pointed out, Look, they are developing intercontinental ballistic
missiles. Those are not to hit us in Israel, he says, they are coming
after us, but they really don't even need intercontinental ballistic
missiles.
They can put them on a cargo ship and bring them right into our
ports, bring them right up the Potomac River, into the Houston Ship
Channel, into New Orleans. In between New Orleans and Houston, they can
wipe out 70 percent of our refined gasoline, so we could be in a world
of hurt in a real hurry.
The President's job is to help provide for the common defense, and it
seems that his initiative is more to be opposed to anything Israel
knows in its collective heart will keep them protected.
Unfortunately, that is not all the news. We look here and find this
article from Newsmax:
Islamic State jihadists may have committed genocide in
trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq, the U.N. said
Thursday in a report laying out a litany of atrocities. The
Islamic State ``may have committed all three of the most
serious international crimes--namely, war crimes, crimes
against humanity, and genocide,'' the United Nations human
rights office said in a statement.
The agency published a horrifying report detailing
killings, torture, rape, sexual slavery, and the use of child
soldiers by the extremists. All of these crimes, it said,
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violations of international human rights and humanitarian
law, and some may amount to ``crimes against humanity'' and
``war crimes.''
Further down, it says:
In numerous Yazidi villages, men and boys over the age of
14 were rounded up and shot, while the women and girls were
abducted as the ``spoils of war.'' The report, which was
ordered by the U.N. Human Rights Council last September,
following a request from the Iraqi Government, pointed out
that some villages ``were entirely emptied of their Yazidi
population.''
Many Yazidi women and girls were sold into sexual slavery
or handed over to Islamic State members as ``gifts,'' the
report said, adding that witnesses had described hearing
girls as young as 6 screaming for help as they were raped in
a house used by Islamic State fighters.
A pregnant 19-year-old had told the investigators she had
been repeatedly raped by a Islamic State ``doctor'' over a
period of 2\1/2\ months and that he deliberately sat on her
stomach, saying, ``This baby should die because it is an
infidel. I can make a Muslim baby.''
We had the report in the last few weeks from a Catholic source in
Nigeria where they have begged the United States for any help that it
will give to try to stop Boko Haram and their efforts to wipe out
Christians in Nigeria.
This source indicated that they had heard from the United States--
from the Obama administration--that the Obama administration will only
help them against Boko Haram if Nigeria will change its laws to allow
same-sex marriage.
Well, apparently, once this administration got through ObamaCare, it
promised the Catholic leaders, Christian leaders: Hey, we will never,
ever refuse to allow you to practice your religious beliefs.
Well, that turned out to be a lie because, of course, they went after
Catholic nuns, they went after the Catholic Church--well, at least
those who actually practice what they hear preached in the Catholic
Church--and any other Christian who believes that abortion is
religiously wrong.
I guess after the administration broke its promise and went after and
used the full force of the government to prevent people from practicing
their religious beliefs and being able to conform their conduct to
their religious beliefs, it was a no-brainer that they would then try
to impose their religious beliefs--or lack thereof--upon countries like
Nigeria or others in Africa or around the world.
There will be a price for the United States as a country to pay when
we know about Jews being wiped out, when we know about Christians being
wiped out, and God has blessed us with the ability to protect ourselves
and to stop such genocide; not only do we do nothing to stop it, we
demand that they abandon their Christian beliefs before we will offer
any help.
There will be a price to pay for the United States of America for
being so callous as Christians and Jews around the world are suffering
in numbers like never before.
I applaud my friend Brad Sherman. This article from Pam Key today
quotes Sherman as saying:
I fear that you have misled this committee in telling us
that once Iran has the rights of a nonnuclear state subject
to additional protocol, that you'll be able to stop sneak-
out, because you've said first that, well, they can't develop
a nuclear weapon because that would be illegal. That's a
preposterous argument. Obviously, they're willing to break
the law.
My friend Mr. Sherman and I disagree on so much, but I know him to be
an honorable man, and he understands Iran doesn't care about breaking
deals. Any deal with Iran is like a deal with Hitler. The Soviet Union
thought they could cut a deal with Hitler. The thing that their leaders
were most mad about was that Hitler reached the agreement before they
did because they had intentions, apparently, of breaching it.
We are somewhere between Neville Chamberlain and Stalin in trying to
reach a deal with a modern-day Hitler, except Hitler didn't have some
crazy religious idea that he should wipe out everybody in the world
that didn't have the exact same religious beliefs that he did.
Look, we are on the side of right. President al-Sisi in Egypt is on
the side of right. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, all over the Middle East,
they are becoming afraid because this administration is on the verge of
cutting a deal that will allow Iran to continue moving forward to not
just one nuke, but many nukes, and a breakout could be a matter of
weeks.
I know people are talking about it could be years, but when you hear
from people that know that you could have a facility 30 meters by 70
meters and that you could sneak that 5 percent into a secret facility
without people knowing and you could enrich it to 90 and have nuclear
weapons, we ought to take notice.
We have been blessed with much, and to whom much is given, of them
much is required. The world deserves better with what we have been
blessed with in the way of power, and they deserve to have us stand up
against Iran. It is time for us to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
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