Benjamin Gilman: “in the most recent State Department report on international terrorism, Iran was again deemed the most dangerous state…”

“in the most recent State Department report on international terrorism, Iran was again deemed the most dangerous state sponsor of terrorism. On May 21, in a speech before a symposium of a prominent Middle East think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, our Secretary of State, Mr. Christopher, said Iran was guiding, as well as funding and training, radical groups opposed to the Arab-Israeli peace process. Earlier this month, Bahrain presented hard evidence that Iran was involved in attempts to destabilize that country, an important U.S. ally in the gulf. Several of those captured by Bahraini authorities admitted to have been trained in Iran and by Iranian agents in Lebanon. We have learned just last week that Iran is using its virtual takeover of the Abu Musa island in the Persian Gulf to improve port facilities on that island and Iran could use that expanded port facility to handle the fast patrol boats it has recently received from China. We are calling on other nations now to curtail any efforts to refinance Iran's mounting bilateral debts and to end their supply of arms and technology to Iran and to Libya. We strongly urge Russia to stop work on its contract to finish Iran's nuclear reactor in Iran. Enactment of this bill is a vital element in the administration's policy of containment of Iran and of Libya and I urge its immediate adoption.”