[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15924]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    COMMENDING THE PEOPLE OF IRAN WHO ARE DEMANDING A FREE AND FAIR 
                                ELECTION

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Madam Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to commend 
the brave people of Iran who have been demonstrating in the streets of 
Tehran for freedom and democracy and demanding that they have a free 
and fair election.
  The election that was held was obviously neither free nor fair. It 
was fraudulent. And the declared winner, President Ahmadinejad, 
obviously lost the election.
  The people of Iran deserve better, and I want to commend those brave 
people. They remind me of the people in Tiananmen Square. They remind 
me of the people in Prague during the Prague spring of 1968. They 
remind me of people everywhere who stand up against oppression and 
stand for freedom.
  I want the brave people of Iran to know that we in the United States 
are with them. We support them. We are against fraudulent elections. We 
are against dictatorships. We are against mullahs ruling the country 
without any real democracy.
  And I would say to these people the United States is with you and we 
are watching.

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