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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. CON. RES. 76 

Condemning the Government of Iran for its flagrant violations of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and calling for certain 

actions in response to such violations. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 20, 2006 

Mr. COLEMAN (for himself, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. ALLEN, 

Mr. DEWINE, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, Mr. NELSON

of Florida, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Condemning the Government of Iran for its flagrant violations of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and calling for certain actions in response 

to such violations. 

Whereas the Government of Iran concealed a nuclear program from the International Atomic Energy Agency 

(IAEA) and the international community for nearly two 

decades until it was revealed in 2002; 

Whereas the Government of Iran has repeatedly deceived the 

IAEA about a variety of nuclear-related activities, including uranium enrichment and laboratory-scale separation 

of plutonium; 
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Whereas the Government of Iran recently removed IAEA 

seals from a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and 

announced the resumption of ‘‘research’’ on nuclear fuel 

in a brazen affront to the international community; 

Whereas members of the international community have 

agreed that the pursuit of uranium enrichment capabilities comprises a ‘‘red line’’ for United Nations Security 

Council referral that has now been unequivocally crossed 

by Iran; 

Whereas this provocation represents only the latest action by 

the Government of Iran in a long pattern of intransigence relating to its nuclear program, including its violation of an October 2003 agreement with the United 

Kingdom, Germany, and France (the ‘‘EU-3’’) only 

months after the agreement was signed, its unilateral violation of the 2004 agreement with the EU-3 to suspend 

its enrichment program (commonly known as the ‘‘Paris 

Agreement’’), its failure to provide IAEA inspectors access to various nuclear sites, and its refusal to answer 

outstanding questions related to its nuclear program; 

Whereas the regime in Iran has made clear the nefarious intentions behind its nuclear program in a series of inflammatory and reprehensible statements, including calling 

for Israel to be ‘‘wiped off the map’’ at a conference titled ‘‘A World without Zionism’’ and asserting that the 

Holocaust was a ‘‘myth’’ and that Israel should be transferred to Europe; 

Whereas previous activities of the regime, including the sponsorship of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, 

and Islamic Jihad through the provision of funding, 

training, weapons, and safe haven and the destabilization 

of neighboring countries such as Iraq, Israel, and Leb-
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anon, indicate that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an 

unprecedented threat to the national security of the 

United States; 

Whereas the Director General of the IAEA, Mohamed El 

Baradei, has publicly stated that once the Government of 

Iran perfects its capability to produce nuclear material 

and completes a parallel weaponization program, it would 

be only months away from building a nuclear bomb; 

Whereas the Institute for Science and International Security, 

a Washington, D.C., nonproliferation advocacy group, released a January 2, 2006, satellite photograph showing 

extensive new construction at the Natanz facility; 

Whereas the IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution 

on September 24, 2005, indicating that Iran’s noncompliance with its IAEA obligations would result in the referral of Iran to the United Nations Security Council under 

Article XII.C of the Statute of the IAEA; 

Whereas each member of the EU-3, the leading partner of 

the United States in diplomatic efforts regarding Iran’s 

nuclear program, has publicly stated its intention to refer 

Iran to the United Nations Security Council and called 

for an ‘‘extraordinary meeting’’ of the IAEA Board of 

Governors on February 2, 2006; 

Whereas the Governments of China and Russia have expressed agreement with the United States and the EU3 that the Government of Iran has violated its commitments to the IAEA; 

Whereas China and Russia sit on the United Nations Security Council, and their cooperation would be required to 

enact any substantive Security Council measures against 

the Government of Iran; and 
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Whereas the Government of Iran has demonstrated no interest in Russia’s offer to enrich Iran’s uranium feedstock 

into power plant fuel on Russian territory, further demonstrating its aversion to compromise: Now, therefore, be 

it 

1 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 

2 concurring), That Congress— 

3 (1) categorically condemns the Government of 

4 Iran for its flagrant violations of its obligations 

5 under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nu6 clear Weapons, done at Washington, London, and 

7 Moscow July 1, 1968, and entered into force March 

8 5, 1970 (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Nuclear Non9 Proliferation Treaty’’); 

10 (2) calls for the immediate suspension of all 

11 uranium enrichment activities of the Government of 

12 Iran; 

13 (3) supports calls for an emergency meeting of 

14 the Board of Governors of the IAEA for the purpose 

15 of immediately referring Iran to the United Nations 

16 Security Council; 

17 (4) calls on all nuclear suppliers to cease imme18 diately cooperation with Iran on nuclear materials, 

19 equipment, and technology; and 

20 (5) calls on the Governments of Russia and 

21 China to demonstrate that they are responsible 
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1 stakeholders in the international community by sup2 porting efforts to refer Iran to the United Nations 

3 Security Council and by taking appropriate meas4 ures in response to Iran’s violations of its commit5 ments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 

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