On the recordJuly 8, 2015
I appreciate my very dear colleague from Florida for bringing this very important topic to light. This is something the American people need to weigh in on; and this is something, as you heard the passion tonight, the people talking about how this is not a good deal. This is not a good deal for anybody but Iran. I would like to do a chronological anthology of Iran's nuclear weapons program. If you go back 30 years ago, they were working on gaining the technology and the material to develop nuclear weapons. John Bolton, in his book ``Surrender is Not an Option,'' talked about the cat-and-mouse game that Iran had played over the last 30 years of saying, No, we are not developing nuclear weapons; and they wouldn't allow the inspectors in. The U.N. had resolutions and sanctions, and eventually, the IAEA inspectors--the International Atomic Energy Agency--was allowed to come in. They caught Iran redhanded, developing nuclear weapons. They apologized. They said: I am sorry. You are right. We were bad. We are not going to do it again. Then it started over again and then over again and over again. For 30 years, we have been playing the cat-and-mouse game. It hasn't gone away. Their mission is to get nuclear weapons. When I look at George Bush, when he put sanctions in the 2000s on Iran to say enough is enough, the sanctions were in place, and they started.…
