Stop Iran Deal

Floor Speech

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Mr. Speaker, Congress, at this juncture, has one overriding task, and that is to stop President Obama's capitulation to Iran. Make no mistake, this is less a deal than it is a list of concessions to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. And there is a reason why you see smiles on the ayatollahs in Tehran and Javad Zarif in Vienna.

Congress should stop this deal because it gives billions of dollars to the Iranian regime, which Iran will use to foment jihad and terrorism throughout the Middle East. Congress should stop this deal because it validates Iran's entire nuclear infrastructure--no dismantling, not even Iran's underground nuclear bunker at Fordo, which has no rational peaceful purpose.

Indeed, Iran is crossing all of President Obama's red lines. President Obama had said you could not have Fordo, he said you could not have a plutonium reactor in Iraq. He said you could not have advanced centrifuges because there is no peaceful purpose for any of those, and yet this final deal validates each and every one of those pieces of Iran's nuclear arsenal.

Congress should stop this deal because it removes sanctions from Iran's Quds force and its commander, Qasem Soleimani, who are responsible for killing hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq. And indeed, when I served in Iraq, Iran was responsible for killing more Americans than even al Qaeda in Iraq.

Why reward those with American blood on their hands by lifting sanctions on them?

Congress needs to stop this deal because it stabs our allies in the back, most notably, our trusted ally Israel. Iran threatens to wipe Israel off the map and refers to Israel as a one-bomb country.

Congress needs to stop this deal because the inspections are not snap inspections. Indeed, the inspections depend on Iran allowing the inspections, and there is an entire bureaucracy set up so that even if you end up getting approval, Iran will have the ability to remove their offending conduct and conceal it before the inspectors see it.

The bottom line is that this deal does not dismantle Iran's nuclear infrastructure. The deal empowers Iran. It makes the world less safe by paving Iran's path to the bomb.

It is a time for choosing in this House. Congress must act swiftly and decisively and reject this capitulation. This deal cannot stand.

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