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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 633 

Condemning the conference denying that the Holocaust occured to be held 

by the Government of Iran and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 9 (legislative day, DECEMBER 8), 2006 

Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself, Mr. BIDEN, Mrs. CLINTON, and Mr. NELSON

of Florida) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 

agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning the conference denying that the Holocaust 

occured to be held by the Government of Iran and its 

President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 

Whereas, on December 11 and 12, 2006, the Foreign Ministry of Iran will convene a conference in Tehran to provide Holocaust deniers a public platform from which to 

espouse their hatred; 

Whereas 11,000,000 people, including 6,000,000 Jews, were 

viciously murdered in Nazi death camps during World 

War II; 

Whereas President Dwight Eisenhower stated unequivocally, 

after visiting Nazi death camps in 1945, ‘‘The things I 

saw beggar description. . . . The visual evidence and the 

verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality 


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were . . . overpowering. . . . I made the visit deliberately 

in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of 

these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda’.’’; 

Whereas the Holocaust is an undeniable fact of history and 

the upcoming conference in Tehran will serve only to perpetuate intolerance and hatred; 

Whereas Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, has 

repeatedly said that Israel must be ‘‘wiped off the map’’ 

and that ‘‘[a]nybody who recognizes Israel will burn in 

the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury’’; 

Whereas the Secretary of State has identified Iran as a state 

sponsor of terrorism that has repeatedly provided support 

for acts of international terror; 

Whereas the Government of Iran sponsors terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the alAqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the Popular Front for the 

Liberation of Palestine–General Command by providing 

funding, training, weapons, and safe haven to such organizations; 

Whereas the Government of Iran has continually defied international demands to curtail its uranium enrichment programs and development of nuclear weapons; 

Whereas the Government of Iran has provided resources, material, and support to organizations whose goal is to destabilize Iraq and Lebanon; and 

Whereas the outrageous statements of Mr. Ahmadinejad do 

not represent the beliefs of Muslims worldwide: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 


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1 (1) condemns the conference denying that the 

2 Holocaust occured that will take place in Tehran, 

3 Iran, under the aegis of the Foreign Ministry of 

4 Iran, on December 11 and 12, 2006; and 

5 (2) calls on the President, on behalf of the 

6 United States, to thoroughly repudiate, in the 

7 strongest terms possible, the conference and its goal 

8 of denying that the Holocaust occured. 

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