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“I thank my colleague for his remarks and reminding us of the stakes. Also, Mr. Speaker, in a recent hearing held by the newly formed Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing, one expert we heard from described the threat posed by just one of the many Iranian- backed terror groups. He told us: Hezbollah remains one of the most capable terror organizations in the world. The group's original aims were to establish a radical Shia Islamist theocracy in Lebanon and destroy Israel. However, in recent years Hezbollah has ``established cells and infrastructure in places across the globe, from Latin America and Africa to Europe and Asia.'' As a former Hezbollah leader confirmed years ago, ``Hezbollah has been receiving since 1982 all kinds of moral, political, and material backing from the Islamic Republic of Iran.'' We must consider the implications that lifting sanctions could have on Iran's ability to export terror and finance military operations around the world. To this very day, we know that Iran remains the most active and largest state sponsor of terrorism. The wide array of terror activities Iran either supports financially or militarily include but are not limited to Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Houthi in Yemen, Shiite militias in Iraq, and militants in Afghanistan, while also maintaining its own terrorism apparatus, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.…”