[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5522]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today out of great concern about the 
Iranian nuclear threat. As dozens of foreign leaders meet here in 
Washington to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, I am deeply worried 
that we are allowing the greatest potential nuclear threat in the world 
to go unchecked. Iran has repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel off the 
map. They have threatened to destabilize the entire Middle East and, 
with that, the entire global community.
  In his last visit to the United States, former Israeli Prime Minister 
Ariel Sharon said that a nuclear Iran ``represents as great a threat to 
the United States, to Europe and to the entire Middle East as it does 
to Israel.''
  The rest of the world should not expect Israel to do its dirty work. 
I agreed with that then. I agree with it now.
  If we want to avoid a nuclear Iran--and I believe we must--and if we 
want to ensure that Israel does not have to take matters into its own 
hands, we must immediately enact strong, effective economic sanctions 
that make it clear to Iran that we will not tolerate this pursuit of 
nuclear weapons. The alternative is simply unthinkable.
  I look forward to passing a strong bipartisan/bicameral sanctions 
bill so that the President may sign this bill into law as soon as 
possible.

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