[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5375]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       IRAN IS A TERRORIST STATE

  (Mr. ISSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, as we meet today shortly after noon here, it 
is evening in the Persian Gulf. It is evening off the coast of Yemen. 
As we speak, Iran is supplying the rebels, the Houthi rebels, with 
weapons. Their ships are heading toward them.
  Iran is, in fact, our enemy; and Iran is, in fact, in an active war 
to destabilize many of the Arab countries, as we speak. Iran is a 
terrorist state, but we are pretending it isn't. The Houthis have been 
determined by the United Nations to be stopped as rebels, and yet the 
Theodore Roosevelt is circling rather than, in fact, sinking that ship 
or stopping it.
  We, America, are negotiating a nuclear deal that may or may not 
work--that remains to be seen--but we are negotiating with a terrorist 
state, a terrorist state that will, I guarantee it, continue going 
forward to destabilize the region and cause American lives to continue 
to be lost.
  This is the peril that we have. We have had it since 1979. If we do 
not stop Iran far beyond its nuclear ambitions, we, in fact, will lose 
American lives every day for the rest of my life.

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