[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 269 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 269

 Expressing the sense of the Senate on United States policy regarding 
 possession of enrichment and reprocessing capabilities by the Islamic 
                           Republic of Iran.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 16, 2013

     Mr. Rubio (for himself and Mr. Risch) submitted the following 
  resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate on United States policy regarding 
 possession of enrichment and reprocessing capabilities by the Islamic 
                           Republic of Iran.

Whereas diplomats from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the European Union, the 
        United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Russia 
        continue to discuss the Government of Iran's illicit nuclear weapons 
        program;
Whereas President of Iran Hasan Rouhani has in the past bragged about his 
        success in buying time for Iran to make nuclear advances;
Whereas Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who retains control over 
        Iran's nuclear program, recently claimed that Iran did not desire 
        nuclear weapons but said that if Iran ``intended to possess nuclear 
        weapons, no power could stop us'';
Whereas the Government of Iran continues to expand Iran's nuclear and missile 
        programs in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council 
        resolutions;
Whereas the Government of Iran has a decades-long track record of cheating on 
        and violating commitments regarding its nuclear program and has used 
        more than 10 years of diplomatic negotiations to buy more time to expand 
        its nuclear weapons program;
Whereas Iran remains the world's number one exporter of terrorism and as 
        recently as 2011 was plotting to assassinate a foreign official on 
        United States soil;
Whereas, over the last three decades, the Government of Iran and its terrorist 
        proxies have been responsible for the deaths of Americans;
Whereas the Government of Iran and its terrorist proxies continue to provide 
        military and financial support to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in 
        Syria, aiding his regime's mass killing of civilians;
Whereas the Government of Iran continues to sow instability in its region and to 
        threaten its neighbors, including United States allies such as Israel;
Whereas the Government of Iran denies its people their fundamental freedoms, 
        including freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of 
        religion, and freedom of conscience;
Whereas international and United States sanctions imposed on Iran have assisted 
        in bringing Iran to the negotiating table;
Whereas other countries, such as North Korea, have used diplomatic talks 
        regarding their nuclear programs to allow time for the development of 
        nuclear weapons;
Whereas, based on the Government of Iran's stockpile of low enriched uranium and 
        its plan to continue installing advanced centrifuges, the Government of 
        Iran could agree to suspend all enrichment above 3.5 percent and still 
        be in a position to produce weapons-grade uranium without detection by 
        the middle of next year;
Whereas, if the Government of Iran starts up its heavy water reactor in Arak, it 
        could establish an alternate pathway to a nuclear weapon, producing 
        enough plutonium each year for one or two nuclear weapons;
Whereas 19 other nations currently access peaceful nuclear energy without any 
        enrichment or reprocessing activities on their soil; and
Whereas the Government of Iran could likewise achieve access to peaceful nuclear 
        energy without enrichment or reprocessing activities on its own soil: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) it shall be the policy of the United States that the 
        Government of Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear 
        weapon and that all instruments of United States power and 
        influence remain on the table to prevent this outcome;
            (2) the Government of Iran does not have an absolute or 
        inherent right to enrichment and reprocessing technologies 
        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 known as the 
        ``Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty'');
            (3) relief of sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program 
        imposed upon Iran by the United States should only be provided 
        once Iran has completely abandoned its nuclear weapons program, 
        including any enrichment or reprocessing capability, and has 
        provided complete transparency to the International Atomic 
        Energy Agency regarding its work on weaponization of a nuclear 
        device; and
            (4) until the Government of Iran has taken the actions set 
        forth in paragraph (3), Congress should move to pass a new 
        round of additional sanctions without delay.
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