[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 15900-15901]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF IRAN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the turmoil continues in Iran with the 
little man from the desert, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, claiming 
victory in the apparent fraudulent presidential elections.
  Leave it to the students of Iran to continue to protest, in spite of 
the government's shooting of students and others who risk their lives 
for the human right to peaceably assemble and freedom of speech.
  Backed by the government-controlled press and the religious leaders, 
Ahmadinejad is trying to quell the hundreds of thousands who say his

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claim to the imperial throne of the presidency is a fraud.
  The sons of liberty and the daughters of democracy in Iran who wish 
to exercise the right of free speech and freedom to assemble should 
resolve this drama peaceably in order to ensure their human rights. And 
I hope our American policy would be morally and verbally supportive, as 
stated by President Kennedy years ago when he said, ``Let every Nation 
know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay any price, 
bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, 
in order to ensure the survival and the success of liberty.''
  And that's just the way it is.

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