Ed Royce: “I would ask my colleagues to think about those neighbors of Iran that would create a heavily nuclearized Middle East…”

“I would ask my colleagues to think about those neighbors of Iran that would create a heavily nuclearized Middle East should Iran succeed in this and what the impact would be. We can only imagine the turmoil and the tensions that will come to the Middle East should we not succeed in this effort to prevent Iran from developing these nuclear weapons. Tomorrow's nuclear Iran would thus have a compounding effect with severe consequences for regional security and, as I pointed out earlier, for U.S. security. So the time for action has long passed. This bill will greatly help because it targets Iran's Achilles' heel at perhaps the only time that we can effectively do that.”