Randy Fine: “I approach this debate from a very simple perspective: When people say they want to kill you, you should believe them.…”

“I approach this debate from a very simple perspective: When people say they want to kill you, you should believe them. For 47 years, the Iranian Government in their version of this Hall, on the streets, on television, anywhere they can find, has yelled ``death to America.'' They don't just yell it. They actually do it. Over those 47 years, it is estimated that 1,200 Americans have been killed by those saying ``death to America.'' Not all of those were military. On October 7, Hamas, directly funded by Iran, killed 46 Americans--46. We hear a lot about how bad they are. We can agree they are bad, but there is always a ``but''--``but we shouldn't do anything,'' I guess. Again, I believe that when someone tells you thousands of times over 47 years that they want to kill you, you should believe them. This resolution makes a simple premise that we cannot allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. Why? We cannot allow Iran to get nuclear weapons because of the second thing Iran seeks to do: create missile capability to deliver those missiles to the United States of America. We have to stop them from creating the missile shield, the drones, and the shorter missiles that they can use to overwhelm our forces in the region, that gives them a shield to continue to deliver those weapons. We have a choice. We can say: Well, they say ``death to America,'' but they aren't really going to do it, or we can realize they have given us 1,200 reasons over the last 47 years to believe them.”