[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 105 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 105

  Condemning Iran for the violent suppression of a protest in Teheran.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 5, 1995

 Mr. D'Amato submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Condemning Iran for the violent suppression of a protest in Teheran.

Whereas an estimated crowd of 100,000 Iranian people assembled in southern 
        Teheran on April 4, 1995, to protest sharp price increases and a 
        shortage of water, and other important staples of daily life;
Whereas the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Bassidj, a political militia, 
        have been granted the right to ``shoot-to-kill'' in order to quell 
        disturbances; and
Whereas these forces, supplemented by armed helicopter gunships, on April 4, 
        1995, opened fire on the demonstrators killing as many as 150 people, 
        thereby ending the protest: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the President 
should immediately condemn this brutal suppression of a crowd of 
protesters resulting in the death of as many as 150 people by the 
Government of Iran and instruct the United States Ambassador to the 
United Nations to bring this matter before the United Nations Security 
Council with the intent of pursuing a Security Council condemnation of 
Iran.
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