[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN IRAN

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to echo what President Obama 
said the other day. Something is happening in Iran, and it is something 
remarkable and inspiring.
  Thanks to Iranian citizen journalists and technological innovations 
and communications, the entire world has seen the pictures from Iran of 
those who are giving their lives in the cause of freedom and democracy. 
The pictures show hundreds of thousands of people, men in green, women 
in chadors, young and old, rich and poor, taking to the streets in 
unity in peaceful protest. They have used the universal human right to 
peacefully assemble and to seek redress of grievances in the full 
knowledge it may cost them their lives.
  They go out today in mourning for the scores of victims of shameful 
acts of repression. Their determination and bravery have the whole 
world watching, waiting and inspired, and hoping that Iranian 
authorities, with the support of the ayatollahs, will do the right 
thing.

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