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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. RES. 166
Expressing support for the Iranian people’s desires for a democratic, secular,
and nonnuclear Republic of Iran, and condemning the Iranian regime’s
terrorism, regional proxy war, internal suppression, and for other pur-
poses.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY26, 2025
Mr. M
CCLINTOCK(for himself, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. AMODEIof
Nevada, Mr. B
ABIN, Mr. BACON, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BARRETT, Mr.
B
AUMGARTNER, Mr. BEANof Florida, Mr. BENTZ, Mr. BERA, Mr. BILI-
RAKIS, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. BOYLEof Pennsylvania, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr.
B
URCHETT, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CARTERof Georgia, Mr.
C
ARTERof Texas, Mr. CISCOMANI, Ms. CLARKEof New York, Mr.
C
LEAVER, Mr. CLINE, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. COHEN, Mr. CORREA, Mr. COSTA,
Ms. C
RAIG, Mr. CRANE, Mr. CRENSHAW, Ms. DAVIDSof Kansas, Mr.
D
AVISof North Carolina, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. DUNNof Florida, Mr.
E
DWARDS, Mr. ELLZEY, Ms. FEDORCHAK, Mr. FEENSTRA, Mr. FINSTAD,
Mr. F
ITZGERALD, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. FLOOD,
Mrs. F
OUSHEE, Mr. SCOTTFRANKLINof Florida, Mr. FRY, Mr.
F
ULCHER, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. GOLDMANof Texas, Mr. VICENTEGON-
ZALEZof Texas, Mr. GOODEN, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. GRAVES, Mr.
G
ROTHMAN, Mr. GUEST, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. HAMADEHof Arizona, Mr.
H
ARDERof California, Mr. HARIDOPOLOS, Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana,
Mrs. H
INSON, Ms. HOULAHAN, Ms. HOYLEof Oregon, Mr. HUNT, Mr.
H
URDof Colorado, Mr. ISSA, Mr. JACK, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois, Mr.
J
ACKSONof Texas, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Mr. JOYCEof Pennsyl-
vania, Ms. K
ELLYof Illinois, Mrs. KIM, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. LALOTA, Mr.
L
AMALFA, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. LATTA, Mr.
L
AWLER, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. LOUDERMILK, Mr. LUTTRELL, Ms. MACE,
Ms. M
ALLIOTAKIS, Ms. MALOY, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. MCCORMICK, Mrs.
M
CIVER, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MENG, Mr. MEUSER, Mrs. MILLERof
West Virginia, Mr. M
ILLERof Ohio, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr.
M
OOLENAAR, Mr. MOOREof Alabama, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. MOULTON,
Mr. M
OYLAN, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. NOR-
CROSS, Mr. NUNNof Iowa, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mr. OWENS, Mr. PALLONE,
Mr. P
ALMER, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. ROGERSof
Kentucky, Ms. R
OSS, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Ms. SALINAS, Mr.
S
CHMIDT, Mr. AUSTINSCOTTof Georgia, Mr. DAVIDSCOTTof Georgia,
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Mr. SELF, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SMITHof Nebraska, Mr.
S
OTO, Mr. STAUBER, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr.
T
HOMPSONof Mississippi, Mr. THOMPSONof Pennsylvania, Mr. TIF-
FANY, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. TORRESof New York, Mr. TRAN, Mr. TURNER
of Ohio, Mr. T
URNERof Texas, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. VANDREW, Ms. VAN
D
UYNE, Mr. VANORDEN, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. WASSERMAN
S
CHULTZ, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr. WEBSTERof Florida, Mr.
W
ESTERMAN, Mr. WILSONof South Carolina, Mr. YAKYM, and Mr.
D
AVISof Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
RESOLUTION
Expressing support for the Iranian people’s desires for a
democratic, secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran,
and condemning the Iranian regime’s terrorism, regional
proxy war, internal suppression, and for other purposes.
Whereas the developments over the past year have left no
doubt that the source of terrorism and warmongering in
the Middle East region is the theocratic Islamic Republic
of Iran;
Whereas the ruling theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran has
acted as a source of terrorism and regional conflict over
the past four decades to ensure its survival, severely ob-
structing peace in the Middle East, and has been a cen-
tral cause of the regional conflict occurring since October
2023 due to its fueling of weapons, missiles, and drones
to its proxies and targeting of ships and free trade in the
Red Sea and American forces in the region;
Whereas there has been support from a bipartisan majority
of House members for H. Res. 374 in the 116th Con-
gress, H. Res. 118 in the 117th Congress, as well as H.
Res. 100 and H. Res. 1148 in the 118th Congress;
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Whereas the Iranian regime has repeatedly and increasingly
violated its commitments under the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and defied the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding
its nuclear programs, and has expanded its stockpile of
near weapons grade of enriched uranium, a necessary
component of building a nuclear bomb;
Whereas significant protests in Iran, particularly in 2018,
2019, and 2022, primarily led by women and youth, have
firmly resisted the ruling theocracy, rejected monarchical
dictatorship, and called for a republic based on democ-
racy and pluralism;
Whereas women and girls in Iran have been the primary tar-
gets of repression by the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolu-
tionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and thus, the main ele-
ments of protests against this misogynistic regime that
have chanted slogans against the regime and called for
freedom, including ‘‘Woman, Resistance, Freedom’’ in
the streets of Iran;
Whereas the efforts of Western countries over the past 45
years to change the behavior of this regime have failed,
and the ultimate solution to ending the Iranian regime’s
threats is the establishment of a secular, democratic, and
pluralistic republic by the Iranian people and resistance;
Whereas in the first four months of Masoud Pezeshkian’s
presidency, over 500 prisoners, including political pris-
oners and at least 17 women, have been executed, some
publicly, and hand amputations by the Judiciary has in-
creased;
Whereas the Iranian regime has arbitrarily and brutally sup-
pressed ethnic and religious minorities, including Iranian
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Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Baha’is,
Zoroastrians, and even Sunni Muslims, and has deprived
them of their fundamental human rights, often culmi-
nating in executions;
Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fun-
damental freedoms, for which reason they oppose any
form of authoritarian rule, reject monarchic dictatorship
and religious tyranny, as evident in their protest slogans,
and seek to determine their destiny, based on their vote,
as the sole criteria for political legitimacy;
Whereas Western nations should stand on the side of the peo-
ple of Iran by holding the regime accountable for repres-
sion, terrorism, and rogue behavior and by supporting
the Iranian people as they seek change;
Whereas, in 2023, the Iranian regime started sham trials in
absentia of some 104 veteran members of the Iranian op-
position, who are primarily based in Europe, including in
France and Albania, to justify terrorist plots against
them, and continues to target Iranian dissidents abroad;
Whereas over 4,000 parliamentarians worldwide, including
243 bipartisan House members in Congress, the majority
of 33 legislative assemblies, mostly in Europe, and over
130 former world leaders and 80 Nobel laureates have
supported Mrs. Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for the
Future of Iran that calls for universal right to vote, free
elections, a market economy, and separation of religion
and state, and advocates gender, religious, and ethnic
equality, a foreign policy based on peaceful coexistence,
peace in the Middle East, and a nonnuclear Republic of
Iran;
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Whereas Mrs. Rajavi’s roadmap for the process of change in
Iran, based on the demands of the protesters in nation-
wide demonstrations in Iran, was presented on November
20, 2024, in the European Parliament, providing con-
crete and feasible steps for regime change by the people
of Iran and democratic process for transferring power to
the people;
Whereas the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human
Rights in Iran, in his July 2024 report, highlighted the
execution of ‘‘tens of thousands’’ of political prisoners in
the 1980s and during the 1988 massacre (up to 30,000)
and emphasized, ‘‘The Special Rapporteur notes that the
‘atrocity crimes’ as reported—which took place all across
Iran—represent the commission of the worst and the
most egregious human rights abuses of our living mem-
ory whereby high-ranking state officials connived, con-
spired, and actively engaged to plan, order and commit
crimes against humanity against the nationals of their
own state,’’ and that ‘‘an overwhelming majority of the
executed prisoners were members and sympathizers of
the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/
MEK).’’;
Whereas over 900 women and men of Ashraf 3 in Albania
are former political prisoners who witnessed prison
crimes of the Iranian regime, and many of them are wit-
nesses of the 1988 massacre and other political killings
in Iran, who must be fully protected for potential testi-
monies before any international courts investigating the
killings in Iran;
Whereas, in an April 19, 2016, letter to a European Par-
liament Vice President, the Prime Minister of Albania
wrote, ‘‘Albania is fully engaged and committed to ensure
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for the Iranian refugees all rights stipulated in the Gene-
va Convention 1951, in the European Human Rights
Convention and in the whole international legislation’’;
Whereas the right to self-determination constitutes an inher-
ent and inalienable right of all peoples, forming a corner-
stone of international law, including the Charter of the
United Nations (1945), which underscores the principles
of self-determination; and
Whereas the Declaration of Independence of the United
States emphasizes, ‘‘whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Gov-
ernment’’, and that ‘‘when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces
a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Govern-
ment, and to provide new Guards for their future secu-
rity’’; Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
(1) unequivocally condemns the Iranian re-2
gime’s warmongering in the Middle East, which is a 3
major source of terrorism and regional instability 4
and calls for its end; 5
(2) affirms that addressing the call of Iranian 6
protesters for fundamental changes within Iran con-7
tributes to peaceful coexistence among neighboring 8
nations and enhances regional and global security; 9
(3) acknowledges and upholds the Iranian peo-10
ple’s inherent right to determine their political fu-11
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ture, as articulated in the United Nations Universal 1
Declaration of Human Rights; 2
(4) calls for holding the Iranian regime and its 3
leaders accountable for their crimes through the con-4
tinued imposition of sanctions and calls for sup-5
porting the Iranian opposition and the Ten-Point 6
Plan for the Future of Iran, which aligns with demo-7
cratic values and ensures a democratic, secular, 8
peaceful, and nonnuclear republic for the future of 9
Iran; 10
(5) urges the free world, given that the people 11
of Iran have been deprived of all their fundamental 12
rights and political paths for change within the 13
framework of international law and the Universal 14
Declaration of Human Rights, to recognize the 15
rights of the Iranian people, the protesters, and the 16
Resistance Units to confront the Islamic Revolu-17
tionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and repressive forces 18
to bring about change; and 19
(6) calls on the United States Government, in 20
cooperation with our ally Albania, to ensure the full 21
protection of the Iranian political refugees in Ashraf 22
3 in Albania against the Iranian regime’s continued 23
efforts to target dissidents abroad and for them to 24
benefit from all rights stipulated in the Geneva Con-25
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vention 1951 and the European Convention on 1
Human Rights, including the right to life, liberty, 2
and security, and protection of property, as well as 3
freedom of expression and assembly. 4
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