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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1256 

Condemning the United Nations moment of silence for Ebrahim Raisolsadati 

as a blatant disregard of the United Nations Charter. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 23, 2024 

Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia (for herself, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, Mr. 

HUIZENGA, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. BABIN, Mr. BURCHETT, and Ms. TENNEY) 

submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 

on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning the United Nations moment of silence for 

Ebrahim Raisolsadati as a blatant disregard of the 

United Nations Charter. 

Whereas Ebrahim Raisolsadati (commonly known as 

‘‘Ebrahim Raisi’’) served as Iran’s 8th President from 

2021 to 2024; 

Whereas, as a ranking member of the Iranian regime, 

Raisolsadati played a role in the mass political executions 

in 1988 that took the lives of between 2,500 and 30,000 

civilians; 

Whereas Raisi later defended his actions in saying he was 

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ple’s security and comfort as a prosecutor wherever I 

was’’; 

Whereas the actions of Raisolsadati during the 1988 attacks 

as one of the judges who oversaw the mass executions 

earned him the nickname the ‘‘Butcher of Tehran’’; 

Whereas, as President, Raisolsadati presided over the mass 

security crackdown that followed the protests of the 

death of Mahsa Amini, a woman detained over her allegedly loose headscarf, and that killed more than 500 people and saw over 22,000 detained; 

Whereas human rights lawyers have described Raisolsadati as 

being ‘‘responsible for the incarceration, torture, rape 

and murder of tens of thousands of people over the last 

few decades’’; 

Whereas Raisolsadati’s Presidency was hallmarked by the 

brutal suppression, detention, and execution of ethnic 

and religious minorities and women; 

Whereas, after the death of Raisolsadati and Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the United Nations Security Council held a moment of silence at the request of China, Russia, and Algeria; 

Whereas the United Nations preamble reads that ‘‘We the 

People of the United Nations determined. . .to reaffirm 

faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and 

worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men 

and women and of nations large and small’’; and 

Whereas paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Chapter I of the United 

Nations Charter reads that ‘‘The Purpose of the United 

Nations are: To achieve international co-operation in 

solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and 


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encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, 

sex, language, or religion’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns the egregious human rights viola3 tions orchestrated by the Iranian regime and Presi4 dent Ebrahim Raisolsadati; 

5 (2) finds that the United Nations Security 

6 Council holding a moment of silence for the death of 

7 Raisolsadati is inconsistent with the United Nation’s 

8 chartered values of reaffirming and encouraging 

9 faith in human rights; and 

10 (3) denounces the decision of United States 

11 Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert 

12 Wood for participating in the moment of silence. 

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