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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 374 

Condemning Iranian state-sponsored terrorism and expressing support for 

the Iranian people’s desire for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear 

republic of Iran. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 10, 2019 

Mr. MCCLINTOCK (for himself, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 

LUETKEMEYER, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. HURD of Texas, Mr. WEBSTER of 

Florida, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. WEBER of 

Texas, Mr. BUDD, Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia, Mr. COOK, Mr. 

LAMALFA, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Ms. 

STEFANIK, Mr. STEUBE, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. STEWART, 

Mrs. LESKO, Mr. CLAY, Mr. RIGGLEMAN, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. 

WALKER, Mr. NORMAN, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mrs. MILLER, Mr. PETERSON, 

Mr. ALLRED, and Mr. BURGESS) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning Iranian state-sponsored terrorism and expressing support for the Iranian people’s desire for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear republic of Iran. 

Whereas, on July 2, 2018, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s 

Office announced it had foiled a terrorist plot against the 

‘‘Free Iran 2018 – the Alternative’’ gathering held on 

June 30, 2018, in support of the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom; 


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Whereas several prominent bipartisan former United States 

Government officials, several retired United States generals, congressional staff, and thousands of American 

citizens participated in that gathering; 

Whereas Assadollah Assadi, a senior Iranian diplomat based 

in the Iranian embassy in Vienna, Austria, was arrested 

in Germany in connection with the planned terror plot in 

Paris; 

Whereas the Iranian diplomat has been charged in Belgium 

in connection with the Paris terror plot and in Germany 

with ‘‘activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder’’; 

Whereas the Free Iran gathering had commenced to show 

support for the Iranian opposition leader Mrs. Maryam 

Rajavi’s 10-point plan for the future of Iran, which calls 

for the universal right to vote, free elections, and a market economy, and advocates gender, religious, and ethnic 

equality, a foreign policy based on peaceful coexistence, 

and a non-nuclear Iran; 

Whereas, on July 10, 2018, a senior Department of State official said, ‘‘Iran uses embassies as cover to plot terrorist 

attacks’’, and that ‘‘The most recent example is the plot 

that the Belgians foiled, and we had an Iranian diplomat 

out of the Austrian embassy as part of the plot to bomb 

a meeting of Iranian opposition leaders in Paris’’; 

Whereas, in January 2019, the European Union (EU) has included the Internal Security Division of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), and two of its 

officials on the EU terror list in connection with the 

Paris bomb plot; 


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Whereas the United States Government arrested two Iranian 

nationals in August 2018 who had acted on behalf of the 

MOIS to conduct covert surveillance in the United States 

against officials of the National Council of Resistance of 

Iran for a target package, which, according to the Department of Justice Federal complaint, may include ‘‘apprehension, recruitment, cyber exploitation, or capture/ 

kill operations’’; 

Whereas according to the Select Iran-Sponsored Operational 

Activity in Europe, released by the Department of State 

on July 5, 2018, ‘‘Two Iranian operatives were arrested 

on charges of terrorism by Albanian authorities,’’ for a 

bomb plot against the March 2018 New Year gathering 

of thousands of Iranian opposition members in Tirana; 

Whereas, in December 2018, the Government of Albania expelled Iran’s Ambassador, Gholamhossein Mohammadnia, 

and MOIS station chief in Albania, Mostafa Roudaki, for 

planning terrorist activities against Iranian dissidents 

and members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of 

Iran (PMOI/MEK); 

Whereas the expulsion of the Iranian Ambassador by the 

Government of Albania is a positive and important step, 

which sends the right message that no Iranian embassies 

should be used for plotting terror and conducting spying 

activities against dissidents; 

Whereas Iran’s malign activities in the Balkans, specifically 

its presence and activities in Albania, pose a serious 

threat to United States national security interests; 

Whereas the Department of State official has urged ‘‘all nations to be vigilant about Iran using embassies as diplomatic cover to plot terrorist attacks’’; 


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Whereas senior Iranian Government, military, judicial, and 

security officials have for decades ordered or committed 

egregious human rights violations and acts of terror; 

Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fundamental freedoms for which reason they rejected 

monarchic dictatorship and are opposing religious tyranny; and 

Whereas in the 115th Congress, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4744 calling on the United States to 

‘‘condemn Iranian human rights abuses against dissidents, including the massacre in 1988 and the suppression of political demonstrations in 1999, 2009, and 2017, 

and pressure the Government of Iran to provide family 

members detailed information that they were denied 

about the final resting places of any missing victims of 

such abuses’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns past and present Iranian state3 sponsored terrorist attacks against United States 

4 citizens and officials, as well as Iranian dissidents, 

5 including the Iranian regime’s terror plot against 

6 the ‘‘Free Iran 2018 – the Alternative’’ gathering in 

7 Paris; 

8 (2) calls on relevant United States Government 

9 agencies to work with European allies, including 

10 those in the Balkans, where Iran has expanded its 

11 presence, to hold Iran accountable for breaching dip12 lomatic privileges, and to call on nations to prevent 


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1 the malign activities of the Iranian regime’s diplo2 matic missions, with the goal of closing them down, 

3 including the Iranian embassy in Albania; 

4 (3) stands with the people of Iran who are con5 tinuing to hold legitimate and peaceful protests 

6 against an oppressive and corrupt regime; and 

7 (4) recognizes the rights of the Iranian people 

8 and their struggle to establish a democratic, secular, 

9 and non-nuclear republic of Iran. 

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