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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1148 

Condemning the Iranian regime’s terrorism, regional proxy war, internal 

suppression, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 15, 2024 

Mr. WEBER of Texas (for himself, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. 

BABIN, Mr. BACON, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BALDERSON, Mr. BANKS, Mr. BEAN

of Florida, Mr. BERA, Mr. BERGMAN, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. BISHOP of 

Georgia, Mr. BOST, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. BURCHETT, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. 

CALVERT, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. CA ́RDENAS, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. 

CARTER of Louisiana, Mrs. CHAVEZ-DEREMER, Mr. CISCOMANI, Ms. 

CLARKE of New York, Mr. CLINE, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COSTA, 

Ms. CRAIG, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DE LA CRUZ, Mr. 

DESJARLAIS, Mr. D’ESPOSITO, Mr. DUARTE, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. DUNN

of Florida, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. EZELL, Mr. FALLON, Mr. 

FEENSTRA, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. 

FLEISCHMANN, Mr. FLOOD, Mr. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, Mr. 

FULCHER, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California, Mr. GIMENEZ, 

Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of Texas, Mrs. 

GONZA ́LEZ-COLO ́N, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. 

GOTTHEIMER, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, Mr. GROTHMAN, 

Mr. GUEST, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mrs. HINSON, Mr. 

HUNT, Mr. ISSA, Mr. JACKSON of Texas, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. JOYCE

of Pennsylvania, Mr. KELLY of Mississippi, Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia, 

Mr. LALOTA, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. 

LAWLER, Mrs. LESKO, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. LOUDERMILK, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. LUTTRELL, Ms. MACE, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. MAST, Mrs. 

MCBATH, Mrs. MCCLAIN, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. MCCORMICK, Mr. 

MEUSER, Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. 

MILLER of Ohio, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. 

MOOLENAAR, Mr. MOONEY, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. MOYLAN, Mr. 

NEHLS, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. NUNN of Iowa, Mr. OGLES, Mr. OWENS, 

Mr. PALMER, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. ROSS, Mr. 

RUIZ, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SELF, Mr. 

SESSIONS, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Ms. SPANBERGER, 

Mrs. SPARTZ, Mr. STAUBER, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. TURNER, Mr. 

VALADAO, Mr. VAN DREW, Ms. VAN DUYNE, Mr. VAN ORDEN, Mr. 


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VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. 

WESTERMAN, Ms. WEXTON, Mr. WILLIAMS of New York, Mr. WILLIAMS

of Texas, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. 

PFLUGER, and Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning the Iranian regime’s terrorism, regional proxy 

war, internal suppression, and for other purposes. 

Whereas the United States acknowledges the critical importance of addressing regional chaos in the Middle East, 

which has been significantly heightened since the October 

7, 2023, attacks; 

Whereas grave concerns persist regarding Iran’s complicity in 

promoting Islamic fundamentalism and providing support 

for terrorism and its proxy groups in the region; 

Whereas Iranian regime officials have expressed full support 

for their proxy groups’ current war and crisis in the region; 

Whereas Iranian regime officials talk about the existence of 

a joint operation room with their proxy groups at the 

highest levels, operating amid the Middle East turmoil; 

Whereas ignoring Tehran’s direct involvement in the conflict 

and its ensuing crisis encourages Iran’s Supreme Leader, 

Ali Khamenei, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard 

Corps (IRGC) to further fuel the conflict; 

Whereas Western nations bear a responsibility to hold the 

Iranian regime accountable for its actions that incite violence, terror, and instability; 


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Whereas the Iranian regime has been deeply implicated in 

furnishing support, both financial and military, to proxies 

in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, and elsewhere in 

the region, as well as on a global scale; 

Whereas the Iranian regime has increasingly acted, since October 2023, as the head of the snake of terrorism and 

war in the region, from supporting proxies that vehemently oppose peace in the Middle East to threatening 

ships and free trade in the Red Sea, and from targeting 

American forces in the region to providing missiles and 

drones to rogue actors; 

Whereas the Iranian regime has stepped up hostage diplomacy as a primary tool of its foreign policy, using it 

against Western nations to release its criminals and terrorists; 

Whereas Asadullah Assadi, a senior Iranian diplomat based 

in the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, Austria, was arrested 

in July 2018 and in February 2021, convicted in Belgium and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in connection with the planned terror plot against ‘‘Free Iran 

2018—The Alternative’’ gathering in Paris, France; 

Whereas the Iranian regime’s survival depends heavily on its 

internal suppression and terror campaign abroad, using 

its terror proxies; 

Whereas significant protests in Iran in the years 2018, 2019, 

and 2022 have echoed the demand for the rejection of the 

Velayat-e Faqih (guardianship of Islamic jurist) to safeguard the sovereignty of the people in a republic founded 

on universal suffrage and pluralism; 

Whereas, commencing in September 2022, widespread 

antigovernment protests were triggered by the untimely 


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demise of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish 

Iranian woman who was detained by the morality police 

who are tasked with enforcing Iran’s mandatory dress 

code regulations; 

Whereas the leadership of the 2022 protests in Iran has been 

predominantly assumed by women and youth who ardently advocate for social freedoms and political transformation; 

Whereas, during several months of persistent protests in 

countless cities across Iran, the security forces of the regime caused the loss of life of hundreds and detained 

tens of thousands of demonstrators, and among the arrested, several individuals were executed starting in December 2022, and continuing to date, while dozens more 

face the specter of execution under charges of 

‘‘moharebeh’’ (waging war on God); 

Whereas the uniformity in slogans and strategies employed 

by protesters nationwide underscores the overarching aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom and emphasizes the organized nature of these protests; 

Whereas the Iranian regime has arbitrarily and brutally suppressed ethnic and religious minorities, encompassing 

Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Zoroastrians, and even Sunni Muslims, and has deprived them of their fundamental human rights, often 

culminating in executions; 

Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fundamental freedoms, for which reason they are rejecting 

monarchic dictatorship and religious tyranny, as evident 

in their protest slogans; 


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Whereas the Iranian populace has voiced its desire for change 

by taking over from the IRGC and Supreme Leader’s 

centers of power; 

Whereas, according to senior Iranian regime officials, the activities of the Resistance Units against the IRGC and the 

Basij forces have played a leading role in nationwide Iran 

protests, particularly since 2022, and the regime has reportedly killed and detained thousands of them, yet 

Tehran remains increasingly paranoid about their activities; 

Whereas, in 2023, the Iranian regime started sham trials in 

absentia of some 104 veteran members of the Iranian Resistance, who are primarily based in Europe, including in 

France and Albania, to create a phony legal precedent 

against them and have them extradited to Iran or justify 

terror plots against them; 

Whereas over 3,600 parliamentarians around the world and 

125 former world leaders expressed support for the TenPoint Plan for the Future of Iran of Mrs. Maryam 

Rajavi that calls for the 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; 

Whereas it is incumbent upon the Iranian people to determine their destiny, based on their vote, as the sole criteria for political legitimacy; 

Whereas the executions of as many as 30,000 political prisoners during the 1988 massacre were carried out under 

the fatwa by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini to 

speedily kill all political prisoners who remained loyal to 


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the main movement in the Iranian Resistance, i.e., the 

Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI), with subsequent death 

commissions established on July 19, 1988, counting 

among their members the current Iranian regime’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, with the express purpose of carrying out the fatwa; 

Whereas the IRGC has, for over four decades, played a crucial role in internal suppression, terrorism, and regional 

proxy wars and has garnered designation as a terrorist 

entity by several nations, including the United States; 

Whereas the right to self-determination constitutes an inherent and inalienable right of all peoples, including the Iranian populace, forming a cornerstone of international law 

and duly enshrined in numerous international instruments, including the Charter of the United Nations 

(1945), which underscores the principles of self-determination; 

Whereas, according to the Universal Declaration of Human 

Rights, ‘‘it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to 

have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law’’; 

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 Government’’, 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 Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security’’; 


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Whereas the President of the Iranian regime, Ebrahim Raisi, 

who has been personally implicated in torture and execution since the inception of the regime, played a prominent 

role in the 1988 massacre and the suppression of the 

demonstrations of 2019 and 2022; 

Whereas over 900 women and men of Camp Ashraf 3 are 

former political prisoners who witnessed prison crimes of 

the Iranian regime, and many of them are witnesses of 

the 1988 massacre and other political killings in Iran, 

among them eyewitnesses of crimes committed by 

Ebrahim Raisi, who must be fully protected for potential 

testimonies before any international courts investigating 

the killings in Iran; 

Whereas, in November 2021, the Swedish judiciary moved 

the whole court in Stockholm to Albania for two weeks 

to facilitate hearing testimonies of 7 former Iranian political prisoners now residing in Camp Ashraf 3, who were 

considered vital witnesses for a trial related to the 1988 

massacre; 

Whereas that Swedish court, in December 2023, upheld the 

earlier ruling of a life sentence for Hamid Nouri, implicated in the 1988 massacre where he was one of the perpetrators in one of Tehran’s prisons; and 

Whereas, in an April 19, 2016, letter to a European Parliament Vice President, the Prime Minister of Albania 

wrote, ‘‘Albania is fully engaged and committed to ensure 

for the Iranian refugees all rights stipulated in the Geneva Convention 1951, in the European Human Rights 

Convention and in the whole international legislation’’: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 


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1 (1) unequivocally condemns the Iranian re2 gime’s actions in the Middle East leading to and 

3 since the October 7, 2023, attacks, which have con4 tributed to terrorism and regional instability; 

5 (2) affirms that addressing the call of Iranian 

6 protesters for fundamental changes within Iran con7 tributes to peaceful coexistence among neighboring 

8 nations and enhances regional and global security; 

9 (3) acknowledges and upholds the Iranian peo10 ple’s inherent right to determine their political fu11 ture, as articulated in the United Nations Universal 

12 Declaration of Human Rights; 

13 (4) calls for holding the Iranian regime ac14 countable for its actions through the continued im15 position of sanctions and to support the Iranian Re16 sistance’s Ten-Point Plan for the Future of Iran; 

17 (5) urges the free world, given that the people 

18 of Iran have been deprived of all their fundamental 

19 rights and political paths for change within the 

20 framework of international law and the Universal 

21 Declaration of Human Rights, to recognize the 

22 rights of the Iranian people, the protesters, and the 

23 Resistance Units to confront the Islamic Revolu24 tionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and repressive forces 

25 to bring about change; 


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1 (6) calls on the United States Government, in 

2 cooperation with our ally Albania, to ensure the full 

3 protection of the Iranian political refugees in Camp 

4 Ashraf 3 in Albania against the Iranian regime’s 

5 plots and pressure and for them to benefit from all 

6 rights stipulated in the Geneva Convention 1951 and 

7 the European Convention on Human Rights, includ8 ing the right to life, liberty, and security, and pro9 tection of property, as well as freedom of expression 

10 and assembly; and 

11 (7) recognizes the rights of the Iranian people 

12 and their struggle to establish a democratic, secular, 

13 and nonnuclear Republic of Iran. 

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