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On the recordNovember 30, 2010
I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding. I would like to say that this administration has not done enough with North Korea. Some good efforts have been made, but much more needs to be done and much more needs to be done with Iran. I am particularly appalled that we did nothing in the last year, when the Green Revolution started, when the fraudulent election took place, Ahmadinejad was reelected as President. There was rampant fraud throughout the country. It was obvious to any observer, and the people of Iran were offended and resented that and they rebelled and took to the streets. We did nothing to support them. That would have been, and maybe still is, the best way possible to overthrow this murderous regime in Tehran. But we are doing nothing to help the opposition. That type of lack of effort, I don't understand it. It's our best shot at freeing the people of Iran so that they can become more democratic and peace loving. There are many pro-Western Iranians, especially young people. Some of them have been to the West, and they like the West. And yet we are doing nothing to support those in opposition to this government. And to find out from WikiLeaks, to have the confirmation that 19 intermediate range missiles that could go as far as Moscow or Western Europe have been sent from North Korea to Iran, and that we know Iran is working on a nuclear weapon at the same time to put on these missiles, there is no question about that, this is unacceptable.…
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Doug Lamborn
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