[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17330]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF IRANIAN STUDENT PROTESTS

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, a few days ago, on the 4th of July, we 
celebrated our freedom. Today is the anniversary of the Iranian 
students' uprising a few years ago; 100,000 courageous, young Iranian 
men and women went to the streets of Teheran demanding their freedom, 
and their movement spread all over the country.
  The mullahs in Teheran have suppressed them and still do; but 
hopefully, before too long, we will be able to see in Iran what we have 
seen in central and Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union, 
people living in free and open and democratic societies, rejecting the 
totalitarian police state of the mullahs, a regime which is determined 
to develop nuclear weapons and a regime which is the center of global 
support for terrorism.

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