[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 23696]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   SENATE RESOLUTION 633--CONDEMNING THE CONFERENCE DENYING THAT THE 
    HOLOCAUST OCCURRED TO BE HELD BY THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAN AND ITS 
                     PRESIDENT, MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD

  Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself, Mr. Biden, Mrs. Clinton, and Mr. Nelson 
of Florida) submitted the following resolution; which was:

                              S. Res. 633

       Whereas, on December 11 and 12, 2006, the Foreign Ministry 
     of Iran will convene a conference in Tehran to provide 
     Holocaust deniers a public platform from which to espouse 
     their hatred;
       Whereas 11,000,000 people, including 6,000,000 Jews, were 
     viciously murdered in Nazi death camps during World War II;
       Whereas President Dwight Eisenhower stated unequivocally, 
     after visiting Nazi death camps in 1945, ``The things I saw 
     beggar description . . . The visual evidence and the verbal 
     testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were . . . 
     overpowering . . . I made the visit deliberately in order to 
     be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things 
     if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge 
     these allegations merely to `propaganda'.'';
       Whereas the Holocaust is an undeniable fact of history and 
     the upcoming conference in Tehran will serve only to 
     perpetuate intolerance and hatred;
       Whereas Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, has 
     repeatedly said that Israel must be ``wiped off the map'' and 
     that ``[a]nybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire 
     of the Islamic nation's fury'';
       Whereas the Secretary of State has identified Iran as a 
     state sponsor of terrorism that has repeatedly provided 
     support for acts of international terror;
       Whereas the Government of Iran sponsors terrorist 
     organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the 
     al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the Popular Front for the 
     Liberation of Palestine-General Command by providing funding, 
     training, weapons, and safe haven to such organizations;
       Whereas the Government of Iran has continually defied 
     international demands to curtail its uranium enrichment 
     programs and development of nuclear weapons;
       Whereas the Government of Iran has provided resources, 
     material, and support to organizations whose goal is to 
     destabilize Iraq and Lebanon; and
       Whereas the outrageous statements of Mr. Ahmadinejad do not 
     represent the beliefs of Muslims worldwide: Now, therefore, 
     be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) condemns the conference denying that the Holocaust 
     occured that will take place in Tehran, Iran, under the aegis 
     of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, on December 11 and 12, 2006; 
     and
       (2) calls on the President, on behalf of the United States, 
     to thoroughly repudiate, in the strongest terms possible, the 
     conference and its goal of denying that the Holocaust 
     occured.

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