[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 23, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H4593]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL WAS THE RIGHT CHOICE

  (Mr. LaHOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, earlier this month, President Trump and his 
foreign policy team made the right choice to withdraw from the nuclear 
agreement with the dishonest Iranian regime. This Iran deal was flawed 
from its inception, freeing up billions of U.S. dollars and relaxing 
sanctions in exchange for weak restrictions and little enforcement.
  Iran has taken advantage of this deal. In 2016, German intelligence 
found that Iran was secretly pursuing nuclear technology and equipment 
from German companies, violating the agreement less than a year after 
it was finalized.
  That same year, Reuters reported that secret exemptions had been 
created for Iran after the talks were over, allowing them to evade some 
restrictions and get relief from our sanctions even faster.
  Months after, another loophole in the agreement was exploited when 
Iran planned to buy 950 tons of uranium to make nuclear fuel since the 
agreement never placed a limit on how much uranium they could have.
  All of this more than demonstrates the ineffectiveness of this deal 
and the potentially catastrophic effects of trusting Iran, which has a 
long and detailed history of blatantly being dishonest.
  This is a bad deal for this country.

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