[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 76 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. CON. RES. 76

 Condemning the Government of Iran for its flagrant violations of its 
obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and calling for 
            certain actions in response to such violations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 20, 2006

 Mr. Coleman (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Allen, Mr. 
 DeWine, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Nelson of Florida, 
  and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Condemning the Government of Iran for its flagrant violations of its 
obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and calling for 
            certain actions in response to such violations.

Whereas the Government of Iran concealed a nuclear program from the 
        International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the international 
        community for nearly two decades until it was revealed in 2002;
Whereas the Government of Iran has repeatedly deceived the IAEA about a variety 
        of nuclear-related activities, including uranium enrichment and 
        laboratory-scale separation of plutonium;
Whereas the Government of Iran recently removed IAEA seals from a uranium 
        enrichment facility at Natanz and announced the resumption of 
        ``research'' on nuclear fuel in a brazen affront to the international 
        community;
Whereas members of the international community have agreed that the pursuit of 
        uranium enrichment capabilities comprises a ``red line'' for United 
        Nations Security Council referral that has now been unequivocally 
        crossed by Iran;
Whereas this provocation represents only the latest action by the Government of 
        Iran in a long pattern of intransigence relating to its nuclear program, 
        including its violation of an October 2003 agreement with the United 
        Kingdom, Germany, and France (the ``EU-3'') only months after the 
        agreement was signed, its unilateral violation of the 2004 agreement 
        with the EU-3 to suspend its enrichment program (commonly known as the 
        ``Paris Agreement''), its failure to provide IAEA inspectors access to 
        various nuclear sites, and its refusal to answer outstanding questions 
        related to its nuclear program;
Whereas the regime in Iran has made clear the nefarious intentions behind its 
        nuclear program in a series of inflammatory and reprehensible 
        statements, including calling for Israel to be ``wiped off the map'' at 
        a conference titled ``A World without Zionism'' and asserting that the 
        Holocaust was a ``myth'' and that Israel should be transferred to 
        Europe;
Whereas previous activities of the regime, including the sponsorship of 
        terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad through the 
        provision of funding, training, weapons, and safe haven and the 
        destabilization of neighboring countries such as Iraq, Israel, and 
        Lebanon, indicate that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an unprecedented 
        threat to the national security of the United States;
Whereas the Director General of the IAEA, Mohamed El Baradei, has publicly 
        stated that once the Government of Iran perfects its capability to 
        produce nuclear material and completes a parallel weaponization program, 
        it would be only months away from building a nuclear bomb;
Whereas the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, 
        D.C., nonproliferation advocacy group, released a January 2, 2006, 
        satellite photograph showing extensive new construction at the Natanz 
        facility;
Whereas the IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution on September 24, 2005, 
        indicating that Iran's noncompliance with its IAEA obligations would 
        result in the referral of Iran to the United Nations Security Council 
        under Article XII.C of the Statute of the IAEA;
Whereas each member of the EU-3, the leading partner of the United States in 
        diplomatic efforts regarding Iran's nuclear program, has publicly stated 
        its intention to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council and 
        called for an ``extraordinary meeting'' of the IAEA Board of Governors 
        on February 2, 2006;
Whereas the Governments of China and Russia have expressed agreement with the 
        United States and the EU-3 that the Government of Iran has violated its 
        commitments to the IAEA;
Whereas China and Russia sit on the United Nations Security Council, and their 
        cooperation would be required to enact any substantive Security Council 
        measures against the Government of Iran; and
Whereas the Government of Iran has demonstrated no interest in Russia's offer to 
        enrich Iran's uranium feedstock into power plant fuel on Russian 
        territory, further demonstrating its aversion to compromise: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) categorically condemns the Government of Iran for its 
        flagrant violations of its obligations under the Treaty on the 
        Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, 
        London, and Moscow July 1, 1968, and entered into force March 
        5, 1970 (commonly referred to as the ``Nuclear Non-
        Proliferation Treaty'');
            (2) calls for the immediate suspension of all uranium 
        enrichment activities of the Government of Iran;
            (3) supports calls for an emergency meeting of the Board of 
        Governors of the IAEA for the purpose of immediately referring 
        Iran to the United Nations Security Council;
            (4) calls on all nuclear suppliers to cease immediately 
        cooperation with Iran on nuclear materials, equipment, and 
        technology; and
            (5) calls on the Governments of Russia and China to 
        demonstrate that they are responsible stakeholders in the 
        international community by supporting efforts to refer Iran to 
        the United Nations Security Council and by taking appropriate 
        measures in response to Iran's violations of its commitments 
        under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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