Washington, DC…Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor on July 15th, 2015 regarding the President’s agreement with Iran on nuclear issues:\u00a0 Mr. Speaker: I don\u2019t know how adequately to express my alarm and outrage at the President\u2019s agreement with Iran.\u00a0 It is a breathtakingly dangerous act.<\/p>\n
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Some have compared it to Neville Chamberlain\u2019s Munich Accord with Nazi Germany, but that doesn\u2019t fully illustrate the danger.\u00a0 In this case, we are talking about a rogue state with all of Nazi Germany\u2019s genocidal intentions \u2013 but this time armed with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
In its preamble, the agreement asserts that Iran will comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that it signed long ago.\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 If it had obeyed this treaty, we wouldn\u2019t be having this discussion to begin with, would we?<\/p>\n
The fact is that Iran has a well-established and consistent record of routinely violating international law.\u00a0 Its intention to acquire nuclear weapons is obvious.<\/p>\n
The immediate effect of the President\u2019s action is to release hundreds of billions of dollars of direct and indirect resources to Iran with which it can pursue its military and terrorist activities \u2013 activities that aren\u2019t even addressed in this agreement.\u00a0 It is sobering to consider that Iran\u2019s extensive terrorist operations \u2013 which allegedly now reach to South America \u2013 are about to get a huge infusion of cash.<\/p>\n
But lifting the sanctions does far more damage than merely releasing resources to this outlaw regime to kill Israelis and Americans \u2013 as its leader vowed to do again just last week.<\/p>\n
The sanctions were having a major impact in destabilizing the regime according to all of the Iranian expatriates I\u2019ve talked with.\u00a0 Relieving those sanctions undermines what had been a rapidly building uprising against the regime from within.<\/p>\n
Over the last several years, the Iranian opposition has grown dramatically for two reasons: there is a strong and growing perception among the Iranian people that the Iranian dictatorship was a pariah in the international community; and that the resulting international economic sanctions had created conditions that make the regime\u2019s overthrow imperative.\u00a0 That is, until Barack Obama blundered onto the scene.<\/p>\n
This agreement cannot be verified.\u00a0 We are now learning that the 24\/7 access to inspections the President promised does not exist.\u00a0 Under the agreement, the regime can stall any inspection for many weeks or even months.<\/p>\n
The President\u2019s promise that violations will result in a snapback of sanctions is also completely empty.\u00a0 Restoring U.N. sanctions would require the assent of China and Russia, something much less likely given our rapidly deteriorating relations with them.<\/p>\n
And even IF Iran scrupulously abided by every detail of the agreement, they can continue to run centrifuges for low-level enrichment, continue their research and development of advanced centrifuges, continue their heavy water research and within eight years, acquire Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.\u00a0 That means, even under this agreement, within a decade, Iran will have nuclear break-out capability and the launch vehicles to deliver those weapons anywhere in the world, with the solemn vow of its government to wipe Israel and the United States off the map.<\/p>\n
Indeed, just last week, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned, \u201cunder no circumstances should we relieve pressure on Iran relative to ballistic missile capabilities and arms trafficking.\u201d\u00a0 Yet a week later, that\u2019s exactly what this agreement does.<\/p>\n
The President says there is no alternative.\u00a0 That is utter nonsense.\u00a0 The sanctions were working.\u00a0 The domestic resistance to this Islamic-fascist dictatorship mustered over 100,000 Iranian expatriates at its annual meeting in Paris this year.\u00a0\u00a0 This movement desperately needs the moral and material support of our nation to bring down this regime from within.\u00a0 That is what this administration has denied them.<\/p>\n
Last month, I fear the Congress became complicit in this agreement by adopting a completely extra-constitutional process for ratification which was a sham.\u00a0 Instead of a 2\/3 vote of the Senate to approve treaties, it requires an almost impossible 2\/3 of both houses to reject it as an agreement.\u00a0 But at this moment in time, there is nothing more important to the world than that 2\/3 of this Congress repudiates this dangerous folly.<\/p>\n
Despite all the indignities, retreats and self-inflicted wounds our country has endured these past six and a half years, the freedom-loving people of the world still look to us for leadership and support.\u00a0 We are still what Lincoln called the last best hope of mankind.<\/p>\n
It is now imperative that Congress now rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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