[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 131 (Friday, September 11, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1269]
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                         IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT

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                          HON. CHARLES W. DENT

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 11, 2015

  Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill and the 
underlying Iran nuclear agreement.
  Despite entering these negotiations from a position of strength, the 
deal before us fails to achieve the goal of preventing Iran's capacity 
to develop a nuclear weapon. It simply contains or manages Iran's 
nuclear program.
  By agreeing to a lax enforcement and inspection regime and fanciful, 
unrealistic ``snap back'' sanctions, the Administration has accepted 
that Iran should remain one year away from a nuclear bomb. I am not 
prepared to accept that.
  The sanctions relief will provide Iran with billions of dollars--
funds that will bolster the Revolutionary Guard and non-state militant 
groups.
  This deal ends the conventional arms embargo and the prohibition on 
ballistic missile technology. Not only will this result in conventional 
arms flowing to groups like Hezbollah, it concedes the delivery system 
for a nuclear bomb.
  This agreement will provide Iran with a nuclear infrastructure, a 
missile delivery system, and the funds to pay for it all.
  By the way, the ``I'' in ``ICBM'' means ``intercontinental.'' I don't 
believe that New Zealand and Mexico are the intended targets. The 
target would be us.
  This deal cripples and shatters our current notion of nuclear non-
proliferation. If Iran can enrich uranium, which they can do under this 
agreement, their Gulf Arab neighbors will likely do the same.
  I do not want a nuclear arms race in the Middle East--a region of 
state instability and irrational non-state actors. And how will 
deterrence work under this scenario? I don't want to find out.
  We should not reward the Ayatollahs with billions of dollars and 
sophisticated weapons in exchange for temporary and unenforceable 
nuclear restrictions.
  Mr. Speaker, I have always supported a diplomatic solution to the 
Iran nuclear issue, but this is a dangerously weak agreement, and I 
urge my colleagues to reject it.

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