[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 3 (Friday, January 20, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S31]
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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 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

  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:

                            S. Con. Res. 76

       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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