On the recordJuly 31, 2013
Yes, Mr. Speaker, the centrifuges are, indeed, spinning. And it is Mr. Rouhani as chief negotiator who met the international community with delay, with more centrifuges, more missiles, more stonewalling. And as my colleagues have pointed out, during that campaign he was the hand-picked candidate of the Ayatollah, one of eight hand-picked candidates because reformers were not allowed to run, was the one on the campaign who said--who boosted--about how he, as chief negotiator in Iran, didn't suspend enrichment but instead completed the program. This is the individual who, when he chaired Iran's National Security Council between 1989 and 2005, was at the table when Iran masterminded the 1994 bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires. He is the individual who gave the order and boasted of it; the man who called on the regime's besieging militia to attack the students in 1999 and crush them, in his words, crush them mercilessly, crush them monumentally--a thousand arrested; hundreds tortured; 70 disappeared; many, many killed. This is the nature of that man. Do not misunderstand his intentions. That's why we need this legislation. I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, last week The Hill published a column entitled ``Don't force an irresponsible vote on Iran sanctions.'' The column started with the following two sentences: ``The House of Representatives is under pressure to vote on a new Iran sanctions bill, H.R.…
