[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 29, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E615]
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                   IRAN IS THE WORLD THREAT TO PEACE

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                              HON. TED POE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 29, 2015

  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Iran pretends like it wants peace, but 
it really wants to conquer the entire Middle East.
  While the Supreme Leader's henchmen meet with our diplomats in 
Geneva, the Iranians are building up their war technology. Iranian news 
sources indicate that since 2014, Iran has been developing combat 
suicide drones. This technology uses drones as suicide weapons to 
destroy jet aircraft, helicopters, and even warships. The drone 
development includes drones that elude radar, have tracking devices, 
and fly for hours with a long range.
  The Supreme Leader says he wants to destroy Israel and the United 
States and you know what? I believe him. He has used his terrorist 
proxy group Hezbollah to go after Israelis around the world. Hezbollah 
killed a bus full of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. It was caught trying 
to kill Israelis in India, Turkey, Thailand, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
  I was in Israel not too long ago and I met with Prime Minister 
Netanyahu.
  He told me the interim Iran nuclear deal was the worst deal of the 
century.
  A year later we have a so-called final deal that is just as bad if 
not worse than the interim deal.
  Iran gets to keep enriching uranium. It does not have to dismantle 
any of its nuclear infrastructure. No centrifuges will be disabled, no 
fissile material will be shipped out of the country, Arak will not be 
destroyed and Fordow will not be closed.
  That means at the end of the deal it basically just has to flip a 
switch to get a nuclear bomb. Why would we be okay with Iran getting a 
nuclear bomb in 10 or 15 years but not today? To use a football 
analogy, this deal puts Iran on the goal line with just inches to go 
before it scores a touchdown.
  The deal is also weak on inspections. Nowhere in any fact sheet is it 
clear that the IAEA will have ``anytime, anywhere'' inspections. In 
fact, an Iranian general said that military sites will be off limits.
  Our one point of leverage--tough sanctions that this Congress 
passed--the Administration seems ready to get rid of sooner rather than 
later. President Rouhani said ``We will not sign any agreement, unless 
all economic sanctions are totally lifted on the first day of the 
implementation of the deal.'' Then our President talked about giving 
Iran $10 billion up front from oil revenue that is frozen in Iran's 
bank account. That does not sound like a tough negotiator to me.
  As bad as this deal is, I'm not even sure there is a deal. Supreme 
Leader Khamenei said ``there are no binding results.'' And you know 
what? I hope he's right.
  As Netanyahu put it when he came to speak to Congress, ``the 
alternative to a bad deal is a better deal.'' We can reimpose 
sanctions, bring even tougher sanctions, and return to our original 
goals of bargaining: dismantle nuclear infrastructure (including 
centrifuges and enrichment facilities), no enrichment, require anytime/
anywhere snap inspections, stop research and development on advanced 
centrifuges, and no development of ICBMs.
  Right now, today, Iran is trying to gobble up Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and 
Lebanon. That is four countries in the Middle East. Now imagine what 
Iran would do once it had a nuclear weapon? We cannot let that happen. 
We must stop the Iranian mullahs that threaten both the United States 
and Israel.
  And that's just the way it is.

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