[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 31913]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REAL THREAT OF NUCLEAR IRAN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Moran) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. MORAN of Kansas. Madam Speaker, over the past several years, I 
have worked hard to remind my colleagues in Congress and the Americans 
that they represent of a real threat of a nuclear Iran. The Obama 
administration has been engaged in discussions with Iran during the 
last several months.
  As many of us expected, the President's open hand to Tehran was met 
with a clinched fist. Despite international efforts to negotiate with 
Iran, Iranian leaders continue to be devious and defiant. Enough; now 
is the time for Congress to act. Fortunately today the House of 
Representatives did.
  Iran already possesses enough nuclear fuel to build two nuclear 
weapons. Even while negotiations were taking place, Iran continued to 
enrich uranium in defiance of five United Nations Security Council 
resolutions, increasing its supply of uranium and becoming more and 
more dangerous each and every day.
  While there are many domestic issues that demand the attention of us 
in Congress, we must not forget an Iranian call for a world without a 
United States or an Israel. A nuclear-armed Iran threatens the safety 
of American troops in the region. It is a threat to Israel's existence, 
emboldens terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and leads to a perilous 
nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
  These are all things we cannot accept and must not tolerate.

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  Passage of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act takes an 
important step to counter the Iranian threat to our national security 
and to that of our strong democratic ally Israel.

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