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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 269 

Expressing the sense of the Senate on United States policy regarding possession of enrichment and reprocessing capabilities by the Islamic Republic 

of Iran. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 16, 2013 

Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. RISCH) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate on United States policy 

regarding possession of enrichment and reprocessing capabilities by the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

Whereas diplomats from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the 

European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Russia continue to 

discuss the Government of Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons 

program; 

Whereas President of Iran Hasan Rouhani has in the past 

bragged about his success in buying time for Iran to 

make nuclear advances; 

Whereas Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who 

retains control over Iran’s nuclear program, recently 

claimed that Iran did not desire nuclear weapons but said 


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that if Iran ‘‘intended to possess nuclear weapons, no 

power could stop us’’; 

Whereas the Government of Iran continues to expand Iran’s 

nuclear and missile programs in violation of multiple 

United Nations Security Council resolutions; 

Whereas the Government of Iran has a decades-long track 

record of cheating on and violating commitments regarding its nuclear program and has used more than 10 years 

of diplomatic negotiations to buy more time to expand its 

nuclear weapons program; 

Whereas Iran remains the world’s number one exporter of 

terrorism and as recently as 2011 was plotting to assassinate a foreign official on United States soil; 

Whereas, over the last three decades, the Government of Iran 

and its terrorist proxies have been responsible for the 

deaths of Americans; 

Whereas the Government of Iran and its terrorist proxies 

continue to provide military and financial support to the 

regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, aiding his regime’s 

mass killing of civilians; 

Whereas the Government of Iran continues to sow instability 

in its region and to threaten its neighbors, including 

United States allies such as Israel; 

Whereas the Government of Iran denies its people their fundamental freedoms, including freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, and freedom of 

conscience; 

Whereas international and United States sanctions imposed 

on Iran have assisted in bringing Iran to the negotiating 

table; 


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Whereas other countries, such as North Korea, have used 

diplomatic talks regarding their nuclear programs to 

allow time for the development of nuclear weapons; 

Whereas, based on the Government of Iran’s stockpile of low 

enriched uranium and its plan to continue installing advanced centrifuges, the Government of Iran could agree 

to suspend all enrichment above 3.5 percent and still be 

in a position to produce weapons-grade uranium without 

detection by the middle of next year; 

Whereas, if the Government of Iran starts up its heavy water 

reactor in Arak, it could establish an alternate pathway 

to a nuclear weapon, producing enough plutonium each 

year for one or two nuclear weapons; 

Whereas 19 other nations currently access peaceful nuclear 

energy without any enrichment or reprocessing activities 

on their soil; and 

Whereas the Government of Iran could likewise achieve access to peaceful nuclear energy without enrichment or reprocessing activities on its own soil: Now, therefore, be 

it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that— 

2 (1) it shall be the policy of the United States 

3 that the Government of Iran will not be allowed to 

4 develop a nuclear weapon and that all instruments 

5 of United States power and influence remain on the 

6 table to prevent this outcome; 

7 (2) the Government of Iran does not have an 

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1 Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Wash2 ington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968, and en3 tered into force March 5, 1970 (commonly known as 

4 the ‘‘Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’’); 

5 (3) relief of sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear 

6 program imposed upon Iran by the United States 

7 should only be provided once Iran has completely 

8 abandoned its nuclear weapons program, including 

9 any enrichment or reprocessing capability, and has 

10 provided complete transparency to the International 

11 Atomic Energy Agency regarding its work on 

12 weaponization of a nuclear device; and 

13 (4) until the Government of Iran has taken the 

14 actions set forth in paragraph (3), Congress should 

15 move to pass a new round of additional sanctions 

16 without delay. 

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