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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 139 

Condemning President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the leaders of the Islamic 

Republic of Iran for addressing the United Nations on Yom Kippur. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 

Mr. FITZPATRICK (for himself, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. 

LANCE, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. LANDRY, 

Ms. LINDA T. SA ́NCHEZ of California, Mr. WALSH of Illinois, Mr. 

LANKFORD, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. PETERS, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. 

SHERMAN, and Mr. POSEY) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Condemning President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran for addressing the 

United Nations on Yom Kippur. 

Whereas Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has specifically threatened 

both the United States and Israel publicly and politically 

on a continual basis; 

Whereas Ahmadinejad and the Government of the Islamic 

Republic of Iran have directly threatened several friends 

and allies of the United States, whom are all members 

of the United Nations General Assembly; 

Whereas Ahmadinejad recently stated, ‘‘The very existence of 

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front to all world nations’’ and has consistently referred 

to Zionists in both the United States and Israel as ‘‘the 

true manifestation of Satan’’; 

Whereas Ahmadinejad has often called for the destruction of 

Israel, demanding for it to be ‘‘wiped off the map’’; 

Whereas Ahmadinejad has consistently denied the evidence of 

the Holocaust, an event that took the lives of more than 

6,000,000 Jewish people; 

Whereas under Article 2, paragraph 4 of the United Nations 

Charter, all members of the United Nations shall refrain 

in their international relations from the threat or use of 

force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, but Ahmadinejad has specifically 

failed to do so; 

Whereas Ahmadinejad and his regime pose a clear threat to 

national security interests in the United States, as demonstrated by Tehran’s nuclear program and their enduring assistance to terrorist groups in the Middle East and 

the Western Hemisphere including Hamas, Hezbollah, 

and other extremists that seek to undermine regional stability and threaten the good order of the United Nations; 

Whereas the Government of Iran has been subject to numerous United Nations Security Council and International 

Atomic Energy Agency resolutions; 

Whereas Ahmadinejad has publicly denounced and spoken 

out against the terms of the resolutions pertaining to the 

proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in clear violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 

Weapons; 


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Whereas current United States sanctions have not yet 

stopped the Government of Iran from moving forward 

with its illicit nuclear program; 

Whereas Ahmadinejad is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2012, on the 

Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur; 

Whereas Yom Kippur, the ‘‘Day of Atonement’’ is regarded 

as the most sacred holiday in the Jewish faith; 

Whereas it would not only be offensive, but insensitive for the 

United Nations to allow Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to address the General Assembly at all, let alone on the holiest 

of all Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, after making such 

vicious statements towards world Jewry and the State of 

Israel; 

Whereas the United States must urge the United Nations to 

prevent this speech from taking place; 

Whereas Jewish people all over the world should be able to 

observe their holy day in peace; 

Whereas an outspoken, anti-semitic Iranian leader should not 

be given the opportunity to criticize a Jewish person’s 

right to freely practice religion or denounce Israel’s right 

to exist on the largest international stage; and 

Whereas Ahmadinejad and the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran have shown that they are not willing to work 

with the international community or respect the order of 

the United Nations: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That Congress condemns President 

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1 public of Iran for addressing the United Nations on Yom 

2 Kippur. 

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