[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29054]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            IRAN AND ISRAEL

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the outburst of hateful and irresponsible 
rhetoric coming from Iran in recent days and weeks is simply 
outrageous.
  In October, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked 
international outrage when he publicly declared that Israel should be 
``wiped off the map.'' Just last week, he suggested that the Holocaust 
never happened. This week, he called for Israel to be moved to Europe.
  Nations, including the U.S., France, Germany, and the European 
Commission, have all expressed their disgust with these comments. The 
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mark Regev, said it best when he 
said, ``The combination of fanatical ideology, a warped sense of 
reality, and nuclear weapons is a combination that no one in the 
international community can accept.''
  He is absolutely right. These comments were not made by some cleric 
of some small mosque. He is a head of state, and to think of him having 
nuclear weapons is frightening. It threatens not only Israel, but the 
international community as a whole, and should be denounced in the 
strongest terms possible by all nations.

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