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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 449 

Condemning in the strongest possible terms President of Iran Mahmoud 

Ahmadinejad’s statements regarding the State of Israel and the Holocaust and calling for all member States of the United Nations to do 

the same. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 12, 2008 

Mr. SMITH (for himself, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. 

COLEMAN, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. 

LIEBERMAN, Mrs. DOLE, and Mr. MARTINEZ) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning in the strongest possible terms President of 

Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statements regarding the 

State of Israel and the Holocaust and calling for all 

member States of the United Nations to do the same. 

Whereas President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated on 

October 26, 2005, that ‘‘The establishment of the Zionist 

regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, 

that ‘‘Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire 

of the Islamic nation’s fury’’; 


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Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, 

that ‘‘There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine 

will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of 

the Islamic world’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, 

‘‘Is it possible for us to witness a world without America 

and Zionism? But you should know that this slogan, this 

goal, can certainly be achieved’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on October 26, 2005, 

that ‘‘The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a 

war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war 

will be defined in Palestinian land. As the Imam said, 

Israel must be wiped off the map’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on December 14, 

2005, that ‘‘They have invented a myth that Jews were 

massacred and place this above God, religions and the 

prophets’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on December 14, 

2005, that ‘‘If you have burned the Jews, why don’t you 

give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or 

Alaska to Israel. Our question is, if you have committed 

this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on February 11, 

2006, that ‘‘The real Holocaust is what is happening in 

Palestine where the Zionists avail themselves of the fairy 

tale of Holocaust as blackmail and justification for killing 

children and women and making innocent people homeless’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on February 11, 

2006, that ‘‘We ask the West to remove what they creVerDate Aug 31 2005 02:46 Feb 13, 2008 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR449.IS SR449

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ated sixty years ago and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on February 11, 

2006, ‘‘Remove Israel before it is too late and save yourself from the fury of regional nations’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on April 15, 2006, 

that ‘‘Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is 

heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on April 24, 2006, 

that ‘‘We say that this fake regime cannot logically continue to live’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on May 11, 2006, 

that ‘‘The West claims that more than six million Jews 

were killed in World War II and to compensate for that 

they established and support Israel. If it is true that the 

Jews were killed in Europe, why should Israel be established in the East, in Palestine?’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on December 12, 

2006, that ‘‘Thanks to people’s wishes and God’s will the 

trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what all 

nations want . . . Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out 

and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon 

be wiped out’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on June 3, 2007, 

that ‘‘With God’s help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the 

hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine . . . By 


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God’s will, we will witness the destruction of this regime 

in the near future’’; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on September 12, 

2007, that ‘‘We do not accept or officially recognize 

Israel. They are occupiers and illegitimate’’; and 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad stated on January 30, 2008, 

‘‘I advise you to abandon the filthy Zionist entity which 

has reached the end of the line. It has lost its reason to 

be and will sooner or later fall’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) condemns in the strongest possible terms 

3 President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hateful 

4 and anti-Semitic statements regarding the State of 

5 Israel and the Holocaust; and 

6 (2) calls on all member States of the United 

7 Nations to publicly condemn President Ahmadine8 jad’s statements as a violation of the principles of 

9 both the United Nations Charter and the Universal 

10 Declaration of Human Rights. 

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