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1	1	IV
2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. RES. 166
5	5	Expressing support for the Iranian people’s desires for a democratic, secular,
6	6	and nonnuclear Republic of Iran, and condemning the Iranian regime’s
7	7	terrorism, regional proxy war, internal suppression, and for other pur-
8	8	poses.
9	9	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10	10	FEBRUARY26, 2025
11	11	Mr. M
12	12	CCLINTOCK(for himself, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. AMODEIof
13	13	Nevada, Mr. B
14	14	ABIN, Mr. BACON, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BARRETT, Mr.
15	15	B
16	16	AUMGARTNER, Mr. BEANof Florida, Mr. BENTZ, Mr. BERA, Mr. BILI-
17	17	RAKIS, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. BOYLEof Pennsylvania, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr.
18	18	B
19	19	URCHETT, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CARTERof Georgia, Mr.
20	20	C
21	21	ARTERof Texas, Mr. CISCOMANI, Ms. CLARKEof New York, Mr.
22	22	C
23	23	LEAVER, Mr. CLINE, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. COHEN, Mr. CORREA, Mr. COSTA,
24	24	Ms. C
25	25	RAIG, Mr. CRANE, Mr. CRENSHAW, Ms. DAVIDSof Kansas, Mr.
26	26	D
27	27	AVISof North Carolina, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. DUNNof Florida, Mr.
28	28	E
29	29	DWARDS, Mr. ELLZEY, Ms. FEDORCHAK, Mr. FEENSTRA, Mr. FINSTAD,
30	30	Mr. F
31	31	ITZGERALD, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. FLOOD,
32	32	Mrs. F
33	33	OUSHEE, Mr. SCOTTFRANKLINof Florida, Mr. FRY, Mr.
34	34	F
35	35	ULCHER, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. GOLDMANof Texas, Mr. VICENTEGON-
36	36	ZALEZof Texas, Mr. GOODEN, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. GRAVES, Mr.
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38	38	ROTHMAN, Mr. GUEST, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. HAMADEHof Arizona, Mr.
39	39	H
40	40	ARDERof California, Mr. HARIDOPOLOS, Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana,
41	41	Mrs. H
42	42	INSON, Ms. HOULAHAN, Ms. HOYLEof Oregon, Mr. HUNT, Mr.
43	43	H
44	44	URDof Colorado, Mr. ISSA, Mr. JACK, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois, Mr.
45	45	J
46	46	ACKSONof Texas, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Mr. JOYCEof Pennsyl-
47	47	vania, Ms. K
48	48	ELLYof Illinois, Mrs. KIM, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. LALOTA, Mr.
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50	50	AMALFA, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. LATTA, Mr.
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52	52	AWLER, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. LOUDERMILK, Mr. LUTTRELL, Ms. MACE,
53	53	Ms. M
54	54	ALLIOTAKIS, Ms. MALOY, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. MCCORMICK, Mrs.
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56	56	CIVER, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MENG, Mr. MEUSER, Mrs. MILLERof
57	57	West Virginia, Mr. M
58	58	ILLERof Ohio, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr.
59	59	M
60	60	OOLENAAR, Mr. MOOREof Alabama, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. MOULTON,
61	61	Mr. M
62	62	OYLAN, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. NOR-
63	63	CROSS, Mr. NUNNof Iowa, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mr. OWENS, Mr. PALLONE,
64	64	Mr. P
65	65	ALMER, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. ROGERSof
66	66	Kentucky, Ms. R
67	67	OSS, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Ms. SALINAS, Mr.
68	68	S
69	69	CHMIDT, Mr. AUSTINSCOTTof Georgia, Mr. DAVIDSCOTTof Georgia,
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72	72	•HRES 166 IH
73	73	Mr. SELF, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SMITHof Nebraska, Mr.
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75	75	OTO, Mr. STAUBER, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr.
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77	77	HOMPSONof Mississippi, Mr. THOMPSONof Pennsylvania, Mr. TIF-
78	78	FANY, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. TORRESof New York, Mr. TRAN, Mr. TURNER
79	79	of Ohio, Mr. T
80	80	URNERof Texas, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. VANDREW, Ms. VAN
81	81	D
82	82	UYNE, Mr. VANORDEN, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. WASSERMAN
83	83	S
84	84	CHULTZ, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr. WEBSTERof Florida, Mr.
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86	86	ESTERMAN, Mr. WILSONof South Carolina, Mr. YAKYM, and Mr.
87	87	D
88	88	AVISof Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which was referred
89	89	to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
90	90	RESOLUTION
91	91	Expressing support for the Iranian people’s desires for a
92	92	democratic, secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran,
93	93	and condemning the Iranian regime’s terrorism, regional
94	94	proxy war, internal suppression, and for other purposes.
95	95	Whereas the developments over the past year have left no
96	96	doubt that the source of terrorism and warmongering in
97	97	the Middle East region is the theocratic Islamic Republic
98	98	of Iran;
99	99	Whereas the ruling theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran has
100	100	acted as a source of terrorism and regional conflict over
101	101	the past four decades to ensure its survival, severely ob-
102	102	structing peace in the Middle East, and has been a cen-
103	103	tral cause of the regional conflict occurring since October
104	104	2023 due to its fueling of weapons, missiles, and drones
105	105	to its proxies and targeting of ships and free trade in the
106	106	Red Sea and American forces in the region;
107	107	Whereas there has been support from a bipartisan majority
108	108	of House members for H. Res. 374 in the 116th Con-
109	109	gress, H. Res. 118 in the 117th Congress, as well as H.
110	110	Res. 100 and H. Res. 1148 in the 118th Congress;
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113	113	•HRES 166 IH
114	114	Whereas the Iranian regime has repeatedly and increasingly
115	115	violated its commitments under the Treaty on the Non-
116	116	Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and defied the
117	117	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding
118	118	its nuclear programs, and has expanded its stockpile of
119	119	near weapons grade of enriched uranium, a necessary
120	120	component of building a nuclear bomb;
121	121	Whereas significant protests in Iran, particularly in 2018,
122	122	2019, and 2022, primarily led by women and youth, have
123	123	firmly resisted the ruling theocracy, rejected monarchical
124	124	dictatorship, and called for a republic based on democ-
125	125	racy and pluralism;
126	126	Whereas women and girls in Iran have been the primary tar-
127	127	gets of repression by the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolu-
128	128	tionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and thus, the main ele-
129	129	ments of protests against this misogynistic regime that
130	130	have chanted slogans against the regime and called for
131	131	freedom, including ‘‘Woman, Resistance, Freedom’’ in
132	132	the streets of Iran;
133	133	Whereas the efforts of Western countries over the past 45
134	134	years to change the behavior of this regime have failed,
135	135	and the ultimate solution to ending the Iranian regime’s
136	136	threats is the establishment of a secular, democratic, and
137	137	pluralistic republic by the Iranian people and resistance;
138	138	Whereas in the first four months of Masoud Pezeshkian’s
139	139	presidency, over 500 prisoners, including political pris-
140	140	oners and at least 17 women, have been executed, some
141	141	publicly, and hand amputations by the Judiciary has in-
142	142	creased;
143	143	Whereas the Iranian regime has arbitrarily and brutally sup-
144	144	pressed ethnic and religious minorities, including Iranian
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147	147	•HRES 166 IH
148	148	Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Baha’is,
149	149	Zoroastrians, and even Sunni Muslims, and has deprived
150	150	them of their fundamental human rights, often culmi-
151	151	nating in executions;
152	152	Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fun-
153	153	damental freedoms, for which reason they oppose any
154	154	form of authoritarian rule, reject monarchic dictatorship
155	155	and religious tyranny, as evident in their protest slogans,
156	156	and seek to determine their destiny, based on their vote,
157	157	as the sole criteria for political legitimacy;
158	158	Whereas Western nations should stand on the side of the peo-
159	159	ple of Iran by holding the regime accountable for repres-
160	160	sion, terrorism, and rogue behavior and by supporting
161	161	the Iranian people as they seek change;
162	162	Whereas, in 2023, the Iranian regime started sham trials in
163	163	absentia of some 104 veteran members of the Iranian op-
164	164	position, who are primarily based in Europe, including in
165	165	France and Albania, to justify terrorist plots against
166	166	them, and continues to target Iranian dissidents abroad;
167	167	Whereas over 4,000 parliamentarians worldwide, including
168	168	243 bipartisan House members in Congress, the majority
169	169	of 33 legislative assemblies, mostly in Europe, and over
170	170	130 former world leaders and 80 Nobel laureates have
171	171	supported Mrs. Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for the
172	172	Future of Iran that calls for universal right to vote, free
173	173	elections, a market economy, and separation of religion
174	174	and state, and advocates gender, religious, and ethnic
175	175	equality, a foreign policy based on peaceful coexistence,
176	176	peace in the Middle East, and a nonnuclear Republic of
177	177	Iran;
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180	180	•HRES 166 IH
181	181	Whereas Mrs. Rajavi’s roadmap for the process of change in
182	182	Iran, based on the demands of the protesters in nation-
183	183	wide demonstrations in Iran, was presented on November
184	184	20, 2024, in the European Parliament, providing con-
185	185	crete and feasible steps for regime change by the people
186	186	of Iran and democratic process for transferring power to
187	187	the people;
188	188	Whereas the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human
189	189	Rights in Iran, in his July 2024 report, highlighted the
190	190	execution of ‘‘tens of thousands’’ of political prisoners in
191	191	the 1980s and during the 1988 massacre (up to 30,000)
192	192	and emphasized, ‘‘The Special Rapporteur notes that the
193	193	‘atrocity crimes’ as reported—which took place all across
194	194	Iran—represent the commission of the worst and the
195	195	most egregious human rights abuses of our living mem-
196	196	ory whereby high-ranking state officials connived, con-
197	197	spired, and actively engaged to plan, order and commit
198	198	crimes against humanity against the nationals of their
199	199	own state,’’ and that ‘‘an overwhelming majority of the
200	200	executed prisoners were members and sympathizers of
201	201	the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/
202	202	MEK).’’;
203	203	Whereas over 900 women and men of Ashraf 3 in Albania
204	204	are former political prisoners who witnessed prison
205	205	crimes of the Iranian regime, and many of them are wit-
206	206	nesses of the 1988 massacre and other political killings
207	207	in Iran, who must be fully protected for potential testi-
208	208	monies before any international courts investigating the
209	209	killings in Iran;
210	210	Whereas, in an April 19, 2016, letter to a European Par-
211	211	liament Vice President, the Prime Minister of Albania
212	212	wrote, ‘‘Albania is fully engaged and committed to ensure
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215	215	•HRES 166 IH
216	216	for the Iranian refugees all rights stipulated in the Gene-
217	217	va Convention 1951, in the European Human Rights
218	218	Convention and in the whole international legislation’’;
219	219	Whereas the right to self-determination constitutes an inher-
220	220	ent and inalienable right of all peoples, forming a corner-
221	221	stone of international law, including the Charter of the
222	222	United Nations (1945), which underscores the principles
223	223	of self-determination; and
224	224	Whereas the Declaration of Independence of the United
225	225	States emphasizes, ‘‘whenever any Form of Government
226	226	becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
227	227	People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Gov-
228	228	ernment’’, and that ‘‘when a long train of abuses and
229	229	usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces
230	230	a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is
231	231	their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Govern-
232	232	ment, and to provide new Guards for their future secu-
233	233	rity’’; Now, therefore, be it
234	234	Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
235	235	(1) unequivocally condemns the Iranian re-2
236	236	gime’s warmongering in the Middle East, which is a 3
237	237	major source of terrorism and regional instability 4
238	238	and calls for its end; 5
239	239	(2) affirms that addressing the call of Iranian 6
240	240	protesters for fundamental changes within Iran con-7
241	241	tributes to peaceful coexistence among neighboring 8
242	242	nations and enhances regional and global security; 9
243	243	(3) acknowledges and upholds the Iranian peo-10
244	244	ple’s inherent right to determine their political fu-11
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247	247	•HRES 166 IH
248	248	ture, as articulated in the United Nations Universal 1
249	249	Declaration of Human Rights; 2
250	250	(4) calls for holding the Iranian regime and its 3
251	251	leaders accountable for their crimes through the con-4
252	252	tinued imposition of sanctions and calls for sup-5
253	253	porting the Iranian opposition and the Ten-Point 6
254	254	Plan for the Future of Iran, which aligns with demo-7
255	255	cratic values and ensures a democratic, secular, 8
256	256	peaceful, and nonnuclear republic for the future of 9
257	257	Iran; 10
258	258	(5) urges the free world, given that the people 11
259	259	of Iran have been deprived of all their fundamental 12
260	260	rights and political paths for change within the 13
261	261	framework of international law and the Universal 14
262	262	Declaration of Human Rights, to recognize the 15
263	263	rights of the Iranian people, the protesters, and the 16
264	264	Resistance Units to confront the Islamic Revolu-17
265	265	tionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and repressive forces 18
266	266	to bring about change; and 19
267	267	(6) calls on the United States Government, in 20
268	268	cooperation with our ally Albania, to ensure the full 21
269	269	protection of the Iranian political refugees in Ashraf 22
270	270	3 in Albania against the Iranian regime’s continued 23
271	271	efforts to target dissidents abroad and for them to 24
272	272	benefit from all rights stipulated in the Geneva Con-25
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275	275	•HRES 166 IH
276	276	vention 1951 and the European Convention on 1
277	277	Human Rights, including the right to life, liberty, 2
278	278	and security, and protection of property, as well as 3
279	279	freedom of expression and assembly. 4
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