S.Amdt. 1787

SA 1787. Mr. SESSIONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1242. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IRAN NEGOTIATIONS.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) President Obama has routinely spoken about a hard line
when dealing with Iran on the subject of their nuclear
program and related sanctions.
(2) March 5, 2012, in remarks after meeting with Benjamin
Netanyahu, President Obama stated: ``. . . I reserve all
options, and my policy here is not going to be one of
containment. My policy is prevention of Iran obtaining
nuclear weapons. And as I indicated yesterday in my speech,
when I say all options are at the table, I mean it.''
(3) On September 25, 2012, in a speech to the United
Nations General Assembly, President Obama stated: ``Make no
mistake: A nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be
contained. . .the United States will do what we must to
prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.''
(4) On April 2, 2015, in an address in the Rose Garden,
President Obama stated that ``Iran has also agreed to the
most robust and intrusive inspections and transparency
regime'' and, ``This deal was not based on trust. It's based
on unprecedented verification.''
(5) Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has
routinely spoken out openly against the United States and any
sanctions against Iran's nuclear program and related
sanctions.
(6) April 9, 2015, in response to the nuclear agreement,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: ``Iran's government and security
forces wouldn't permit outside inspections of the country's
military sites, which are officially nonnuclear but where
United Nations investigators suspect Tehran conducted tests
related to atomic weapons development.''
(7) On May 20, 2015, in a graduation speech at the Imam
Hussein Military University in Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
ruled out ``allowing international inspectors to interview
Iranian nuclear scientists as part of any potential deal on
its nuclear program'', and reiterated that the country
``would not allow the inspection of military sites''.

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(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that no
negotiations should be allowed to continue with respect to a
nuclear agreement with Iran that does not include robust
inspections and proper verification of all Iran's nuclear
programs, military installations, and access to scientists
and their respective progress.
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