[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  IRAN

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, we repeatedly hear supporters of this 
weak and dangerous Iran nuclear deal throw out this false dichotomy: It 
is either this deal or war.
  The reality of the situation is this: If Congress does not reject 
this naive Iran nuclear deal, then we won't be faced with the deal or 
war. We will be faced with this deal and war.
  Why do I say this? Other countries in the region are going to want 
what we have conceded to Iran, especially because we inexplicably 
agreed to a lifting of the arms embargo and a lifting of the sanctions 
against the regime's ballistic missile program.
  So what have we guaranteed with this unverifiable deal? There is a 
conventional and nuclear arms race already set in motion in the region, 
and Iran will be nuclear in just about a decade's time.
  The only rational decision, Mr. Speaker, is to vote against this deal 
if we truly want to avoid war.

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