mr rouhani is the newly elected president you know him personally what do you think of him. who is he is the president elect of iran has his respected by everyone and everybody will help him. so that he will be successful in managing the first of the country if the candidate you were supporting was disqualified from the presidential race do you think the outcome of the elections would be different. that's definitely. why didn't you contest like you said you were it is disqualify. cation. you know i hadn't said it before that i'm going to contest it or to object to it yes there is a law and i just obey the law. i remember when you came to power you really came by the help of the masses you were the first president who didn't come by the help of the ruling elite and you positioned your presidency as independent from the clerics eight years later how do you see the clerics now. is it you know you see these are some historical religious social matters and issues in iran very complicated ones. iran is iran. people of iran are cultured people. dating back seven thousand years thei

mr. rouhani, he is no moderate. moderates were not allowed to run in this election. he may be the hard core. he is a hardliner and deceived the international community when he served as iran's chief nuclear negotiator and made clear that he supports iran's nuclear ambitions. this is a bipartisan bill and we have over 370 co-sponsor. i urge my colleagues to vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. royce: the centrifuges are spinning and it is mr. rouhani as chief negotiator, who met the international community with delay, with more centrifuges, more missiles, more stonewalling. and as my colleagues have pointed out during that campaign, he as handpicked candidates, one of eight, because reformers to run, not allowed who said, who boasted about how as chief negotiator in iran didn't suspend enrichment but instead completed the program. now this is the individual who when he chaired iran's national security council between 1989 and 2005 was at the table when iran masterminded the 1994 ombing of the jewish center in he attacked the students in