Iran

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Ms. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about who we are in this moment when the world is watching us choose.

The President's illegal war has already lasted 75 days and cost us over $29 billion.

We are bombing schoolgirls in Iran, and we are standing by while civilians are being murdered by the thousands. We are shattering every global alliance that we have built.

And we stand alone.

History will require atonement, but we can choose differently. We have a choice right now.

We are a nation of profound moral power. The power does not live in bullets, but it lives in our willingness to return to our deepest values, to choose diplomacy when a world expects war, to honor the lives of those we claim to protect while refusing to destroy them.

This is a moment that can and will define us; not who we are, rather, who we are choosing to be.

To achieve a free Iran, a free Cuba, a free Lebanon, a free Venezuela, a free Sudan, a free Gaza, diplomacy is our best tool.

I will not support or give another dime to this war, and I call on Congress to remember who we are meant to be.

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