[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24749]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            REGARDING IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S DISTURBING REMARKS

  (Mr. MEEKS of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. Madam Speaker, the world is much smaller today 
than it was; and when we particularly focus in on the Middle East, we 
need peace. However, I am deeply disturbed by the remarks of the new 
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when he was addressing 4,000 
students, using the language of Ayatollah Khomeini, where he says and 
threatens: ``Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the 
Islamic nation's fury.''
  Who is this guy? We cannot allow this kind of language to stand in 
this day and age. We must make sure that we condemn this kind of 
language and those kinds of acts. Here is a guy with a questionable 
background. Some of our hostages say that he is the individual who was 
there when they were held in Iran. The international community must 
come together and make sure that there are no nuclear reactors there. 
We must make sure that it is clear that we are going to stand by our 
friends and allies in Israel in this regards and that we are going to 
be the ones that are going to force peace to be in the Middle East and 
we are not going to have this kind of rhetoric language continuing. We 
cannot allow this man with this questionable background to continue to 
go unchecked.

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