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“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Mr. Roskam for his leadership in spearheading this discussion on the dangers of last month's interim nuclear agreement deal with Iran. As we have had more time to dissect this deal, it is becoming clearer and clearer that, despite Secretary Kerry's claim that no deal is better than a bad deal, we have been had. In exchange for the one thing that Iran so desperately needs-- sanctions relief to jump-start its flailing economy--the administration received nothing more than window dressing to stop Iran's nuclear program. This interim deal is the unraveling of the sanctions policy that was so painstakingly crafted over the past 10 years. It was aimed at bringing Iran's nuclear program to an end. We have already seen other nations eager to get back into the Iranian market, and it will now be nearly impossible to stop the cash infusion into the Iranian regime. {time} 1745 How can we stop this? This deal is contrary to U.S. sanctions law. It is contrary to U.N. Security Council resolutions that explicitly prohibit Iran from being able to enrich its own uranium. By accepting this deal, the administration has acquiesced to Iran's illegitimate claim to a right to enrich uranium, and it has done nothing to dismantle the nuclear infrastructure of Iran's. Any temporary pause in Iran's progress can now be easily started right up again with no real detriment to Tehran's march toward nuclear weapons capability.…”