[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                WHITE HOUSE DECEPTION ON IRAN ARMS DEAL

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, over the weekend The New York Times 
published a disturbing story about the Obama administration's efforts 
to manipulate press coverage of the Iran deal.
  When the deal was signed last year, many of my colleagues and I 
warned that Iran could not be trusted to follow these temporary 
restrictions on their nuclear weapons program, but key staffers in the 
White House worked to create an echo chamber for their false claims 
about the Iran deal.
  The Obama administration spun a concocted story about a moderate 
regime coming to power in Iran that was suddenly willing to change 
their approach to their pursuit of nuclear weapons and their 
relationship with the rest of the world.
  As it turns out, the administration had already begun talks with Iran 
well before new President Rouhani took office. Iran already knew how 
desperate President Obama was to sign this or any deal which allowed 
them to extract several key concessions. The deal only provides 
temporary restrictions on Iran's nuclear weapons program while giving 
Iran permanent relief from sanctions.
  Meanwhile, Iran will continue to support terrorism and further 
destabilize the region as well as violate the missile test program in 
the agreement.
  The Obama administration's misleading campaign to convince the 
American people to support the Iran deal has dangerous consequences for 
us deceiving the public and their trust in government as well as 
putting our allies around the world, such as Israel, in danger and that 
trust as well.

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