[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 100 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 100

 Expressing support for the Iranian people's desire for a democratic, 
secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran, and condemning violations of 
 human rights and state-sponsored terrorism by the Iranian Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2023

Mr. McClintock (for himself, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Feenstra, Mr. Bishop of 
   Georgia, Mr. Cline, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Owens, Mr. 
 Veasey, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. 
  Clarke of New York, Mr. Johnson of Louisiana, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Diaz-
   Balart, Mr. Amodei, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Calvert, Mr. 
 Finstad, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Evans, Mr. Allen, Mrs. Gonzalez-Colon, Mr. 
 Ruiz, Mr. Mike Garcia of California, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Garbarino, Mr. 
 Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Lawler, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, 
 Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Flood, Mr. Allred, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Wexton, Mr. 
 Ruppersberger, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Moran, Mr. 
  Latta, Mr. Bost, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. 
    Wenstrup, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Steel, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Ellzey, Ms. 
 McCollum, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. 
 Smucker, Mr. Turner, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Salazar, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. 
  Hern, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Tony Gonzales of 
Texas, Mr. Mooney, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Davis of Illinois, 
   Mr. Murphy, Mr. Mast, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Bera, Mr. 
Williams of New York, Mr. Hill, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Weber 
of Texas, Mr. Ezell, Mr. Pence, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Self, Mr. Moskowitz, 
Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Nunn of Iowa, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Webster of Florida, 
Mr. Dunn of Florida, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Gooden of Texas, 
     Mr. Cohen, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. 
Bilirakis, Mr. Womack, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Babin, Mr. Sessions, 
   Mr. Wittman, Mr. Burchett, Mr. Duncan, Ms. Mace, Mr. Simpson, Mr. 
 Moolenaar, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. Clyde, Ms. Craig, Ms. Wilson of 
Florida, Mr. Guest, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. LaMalfa, Ms. Granger, Ms. Sanchez, 
 Mr. Norman, Mr. Trone, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. Ross, Mr. Green of 
 Texas, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Gimenez, 
 Mr. Courtney, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Crawford, Mr. 
   McCormick, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mrs. 
 McBath, Mr. Perry, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Obernolte, Mr. Costa, Mr. Peters, 
Ms. Chu, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Stanton, Ms. Norton, Mr. DesJarlais, 
Mr. Issa, Mrs. Lesko, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Barr, 
    Mr. Westerman, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mrs. 
 McClain, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. 
 Crenshaw, Mr. Payne, Mr. Ferguson, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Kiley, Mr. Kelly 
of Mississippi, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Tiffany, and Mr. C. Scott 
  Franklin of Florida) submitted the following resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing support for the Iranian people's desire for a democratic, 
secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran, and condemning violations of 
 human rights and state-sponsored terrorism by the Iranian Government.

Whereas, beginning in 2017, and continuing for several months after protests 
        erupted in more than 100 cities, the Iranian regime suppressed such 
        protests with repressive forces that resulted in at least 25 deaths and 
        4,000 arrests, including decorated wrestling champion Navid Afkari, who 
        was later executed in September 2020 amidst international outrage;
Whereas, on November 15, 2019, popular protests against the Iranian regime began 
        and rapidly spread to at least 100 cities throughout the country, and 
        reports indicate that Iranian security forces used lethal force and 
        about 1,500 people were killed during less than 2 weeks of unrest, and 
        thousands more were detained during these protests;
Whereas, beginning in September 2022, antigovernment protests ignited in 
        response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian 
        woman who was arrested by the morality police that enforce Iran's 
        mandatory dress code laws;
Whereas women and youth have led the 2022 protests in Iran, demanding social 
        freedom and political change;
Whereas these protests are rooted in the more than four decades of organized 
        resistance against the Iranian dictatorship, which have been most 
        recently led by women who have endured torture, sexual and gender-based 
        violence, and death;
Whereas in several months of continuing protests in hundreds of cities 
        throughout Iran, the regime's security forces have killed hundreds and 
        arrested tens of thousands of protesters, two of whom, Mohsen Shekari 
        and Majidreza Rahnavard (both 23 years old), were hung on December 8 and 
        12, 2022, in Tehran and Mashhad; meanwhile, dozens more have been 
        convicted of ``Moharebeh'' (waging war on God), and are at risk of 
        execution;
Whereas, according to a December 9, 2022, Amnesty International report, ``Iran's 
        security forces have killed with absolute impunity more than 40 children 
        and injured many more in a bid to crush the spirit of resistance among 
        the country's youth and retain their iron grip on power at any cost'';
Whereas the similarity in slogans and tactics used by protests nationwide 
        reflect the overarching demands of the Iranian people and point to the 
        organized nature of the protests;
Whereas, in the 116th Congress, the House of Representatives passed House 
        Resolution 752, ``Supporting the rights of the people of Iran to free 
        expression, condemning the Iranian regime for its crackdown on 
        legitimate protests, and for other purposes.'';
Whereas House Resolution 752 urges the Administration to work to convene 
        emergency sessions of the United Nations Security Council and to work 
        with United States partners and allies to condemn the ongoing human 
        rights violations perpetrated by the Iranian regime and establish a 
        mechanism by which the United Nations Security Council can monitor such 
        violations;
Whereas, on November 24, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council 
        established a fact-finding mission to conduct an independent 
        investigation into the ongoing deadly violence related to the protests 
        in Iran that began on September 16, 2022;
Whereas, on December 14, 2022, the United Nations Economic and Social Council 
        (ECOSOC) adopted a resolution to expel Iran from the Commission on the 
        Status of Women (CSW) for the remainder of its 4-year term ending in 
        2026;
Whereas the Department of State's 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights 
        Practices, released on April 13, 2022, cites that Iran's ``government 
        and its agents reportedly committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, most 
        commonly executions for crimes not meeting the international legal 
        standard of `most serious crimes' or for crimes committed by juvenile 
        offenders, as well as executions after trials without due process.'';
Whereas, on October 25, 2021, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on 
        the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid 
        Rehman, told the United Nations General Assembly that almost all 
        executions in the country constituted an arbitrary deprivation of life, 
        noting the ``extensive, vague and arbitrary grounds in Iran for imposing 
        the death sentence, which quickly can turn this punishment into a 
        political tool.'';
Whereas the Iranian regime has arbitrarily and brutally suppressed ethnic and 
        religious minorities, including Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs, 
        Christians, Jews, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, and even Sunni Muslims, and 
        deprived them of their basic human rights, and has in many cases 
        executed them;
Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fundamental freedoms for 
        which reason they are rejecting monarchic dictatorship and religious 
        tyranny, as evident in their protest slogans;
Whereas, in the 115th Congress, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4744 
        calling on the United States to ``condemn Iranian human rights abuses 
        against dissidents, including the massacre in 1988 and the suppression 
        of political demonstrations in 1999, 2009, and 2017, and pressure the 
        Government of Iran to provide family members detailed information that 
        they were denied about the final resting places of any missing victims 
        of such abuses'';
Whereas, on January 13, 2022, a United Nations report has urged ``the 
        international community to call for accountability with respect to long-
        standing emblematic events that have been met with persistent impunity, 
        including the enforced disappearances and summary and arbitrary 
        executions of 1988 and the November 2019 protests.'';
Whereas the killings of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 were carried 
        out based on a fatwa to execute all political prisoners who remained 
        loyal to the Iranian Resistance, and subsequent death commissions were 
        formed on July 19, 1988, whose members included the current Iranian 
        regime's President, Ebrahim Raisi, an official from the Ministry of 
        Intelligence, and a state prosecutor, to implement the fatwa;
Whereas the United States should be involved in any establishment of an 
        international investigation into the 1988 extrajudicial killings of 
        Iranian dissidents;
Whereas senior Iranian Government, military, judicial, and security officials 
        have for decades ordered or committed egregious human rights violations 
        and acts of terror;
Whereas, on June 30, 2018, tens of thousands of people gathered in Paris at the 
        Free Iran gathering where they supported advocates for a democratic, 
        secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran, and showed support for the 
        opposition leader Mrs. Maryam Rajavi's 10-point plan for the future of 
        Iran, which calls for the universal right to vote, free elections, and a 
        market economy, and advocates gender, religious, and ethnic equality, a 
        foreign policy based on peaceful coexistence, and a nonnuclear Iran;
Whereas, on July 2, 2018, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office announced it 
        had foiled a terrorist plot against the ``Free Iran 2018-the 
        Alternative'' gathering held on June 30, 2018, in support of the Iranian 
        people's struggle for freedom;
Whereas Assadollah Assadi, a senior Iranian diplomat based in the Iranian 
        embassy in Vienna, Austria, was arrested in Germany and on February 2021 
        convicted in Belgium and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in 
        connection with the planned terror plot in Paris at the Free Iran 
        gathering;
Whereas Assadollah Assadi served as the third secretary of the Iranian embassy 
        in Austria;
Whereas instead of representing the interests of the Iranian people, the Iranian 
        regime has long used its Foreign Ministry and diplomatic representations 
        abroad to orchestrate terror plots and whitewash gross human rights 
        violations in Iran;
Whereas, on December 15, 2022, the Special Court for Combatting Corruption and 
        Organized Crime (SPAK) in Albania sentenced an Iranian national to 10 
        years in prison on terrorism-related charges, including attempts to 
        engage in espionage against, and the assassination of Iranian dissidents 
        in Albania;
Whereas Iran's malign activities in the Balkans pose a serious threat to United 
        States national security interests;
Whereas, on November 23, 2022, the Department of the Treasury announced 
        additional action on Iranian security forces, including Islamic 
        Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces, for their violent crackdown on 
        antigovernment protests in Iran's Kurdistan Province and surrounding 
        areas; and
Whereas, according to the statement issued by the Department of State, on 
        November 23, 2022, ``The United States continues to support the Iranian 
        people as they protest nationwide'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns past and present Iranian state-sponsored 
        terrorist attacks against United States citizens and officials, 
        as well as Iranian dissidents, including the Iranian regime's 
        terror plot against the ``Free Iran 2018-the Alternative'' 
        gathering in Paris;
            (2) calls on relevant United States Government agencies to 
        work with European allies, including those in the Balkans where 
        Iran has expanded its presence, to hold Iran accountable for 
        breaching diplomatic privileges, and to call on nations to 
        prevent the malign activities of the Iranian regime's 
        diplomatic missions, with the goal of closing them down and 
        expelling its agents;
            (3) stands with the people of Iran who are legitimately 
        defending their rights for freedom against repression, and 
        condemns the brutal killing of Iranian protesters by the 
        Iranian regime; and
            (4) recognizes the rights of the Iranian people and their 
        struggle to establish a democratic, secular, and nonnuclear 
        Republic of Iran.
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