[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 14, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H5121-H5122]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             STOP IRAN DEAL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. DeSantis) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Mr. Speaker, Congress, at this juncture, has one 
overriding task, and that is to stop President Obama's capitulation to 
Iran. Make no mistake, this is less a deal than it is a list of 
concessions to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. And 
there is a reason why you see smiles on the ayatollahs in Tehran and 
Javad Zarif in Vienna.
  Congress should stop this deal because it gives billions of dollars 
to the Iranian regime, which Iran will use to foment jihad and 
terrorism throughout the Middle East. Congress should stop this deal 
because it validates Iran's entire nuclear infrastructure--no 
dismantling, not even Iran's underground nuclear bunker at Fordo, which 
has no rational peaceful purpose.
  Indeed, Iran is crossing all of President Obama's red lines. 
President Obama had said you could not have Fordo, he said you could 
not have a plutonium reactor in Iraq. He said you could not have 
advanced centrifuges because there is no peaceful purpose for any of 
those, and yet this final deal validates each and every one of those 
pieces of Iran's nuclear arsenal.
  Congress should stop this deal because it removes sanctions from 
Iran's Quds force and its commander, Qasem Soleimani, who are 
responsible for killing hundreds of American soldiers in

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Iraq. And indeed, when I served in Iraq, Iran was responsible for 
killing more Americans than even al Qaeda in Iraq.
  Why reward those with American blood on their hands by lifting 
sanctions on them?
  Congress needs to stop this deal because it stabs our allies in the 
back, most notably, our trusted ally Israel. Iran threatens to wipe 
Israel off the map and refers to Israel as a one-bomb country.
  Congress needs to stop this deal because the inspections are not snap 
inspections. Indeed, the inspections depend on Iran allowing the 
inspections, and there is an entire bureaucracy set up so that even if 
you end up getting approval, Iran will have the ability to remove their 
offending conduct and conceal it before the inspectors see it.
  The bottom line is that this deal does not dismantle Iran's nuclear 
infrastructure. The deal empowers Iran. It makes the world less safe by 
paving Iran's path to the bomb.
  It is a time for choosing in this House. Congress must act swiftly 
and decisively and reject this capitulation. This deal cannot stand.

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