Franks Floor Statement on Final Passage of Iran Sanctions Conference Report

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Franks Floor Statement on Final Passage of Iran Sanctions Conference Report

June 24, 2010 - Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02), a Member of the House Armed Services Committee and the GOP Conference National Security Solutions Group, made the following remarks today during debate on the final passage of the Iran Sanctions Conference Report:

"Mr. Speaker, we live in a moment in history when the terrorist state of Iran is on the brink of developing nuclear weapons.

If that occurs, all other issues will be wiped from the table and whatever challenges we have in dealing with Iran today will pale in comparison to dealing with an Iran that has nuclear weapons.

Over the last sixteen months the Obama Administration has dithered and pretended to pursue effective U.N. and U.S. sanctions against Iran; yet Mr. Obama has not enforced even ONE of the sanctions that already exist in the law against even ONE company doing business with Iran.

The question now is will Mr. Obama enforce the new sanctions we are about to pass, or will he waive them like he has all the others?

Mr. Speaker, I am afraid that the last window we will ever have to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons is rapidly closing. I pray the Obama administration will wake up in time to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear armed nation, from threatening the peace of the human family, and from bringing nuclear terrorism to this and to future generations."


Congressman Franks is serving his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, and is a member of the Committee on Armed Services, Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee, Military Readiness Subcommittee, Committee on the Judiciary, Constitution Subcommittee, and is Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.