IV 

108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 259

Calling for robust inspections in Iran. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 4, 2003

Mr. MARKEY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on International Relations 

RESOLUTION

Calling for robust inspections in Iran.

Whereas the spread of nuclear weapons threatens world peace 

and stability; 

Whereas the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 

Weapons was written to prevent the spread of nuclear 

weapons and has been signed by 188 countries around 

the globe; 

Whereas the International Atomic Energy Agency was created to perform inspections and detect nuclear weapons 

programs and has 135 member states; 

Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran possesses an estimated 

10 percent of the world’s reserves of oil and an estimated 

20 percent of the world’s reserves of natural gas, yet, 

with assistance from the Russian Federation, is con-
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structing nuclear power plants, ostensibly to generate 

electricity; 

Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran is digging uranium 

mines and constructing uranium processing plants and 

spent fuel reprocessing plants, which, when combined 

with nuclear power plants, will allow the control of the 

entire nuclear fuel cycle, ultimately leading to the accumulation of both highly-enriched uranium and nuclearweapons grade plutonium; 

Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran was among the first 

countries to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of 

Nuclear Weapons on July 1, 1968, ratified the treaty on 

February 2, 1970, and is thus constrained by international law from developing nuclear weapons; 

Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran joined the International 

Atomic Energy Agency in 1958 and, through its safeguards agreement with that Agency, is required to allow 

inspections of all declared and suspected nuclear and nuclear-related facilities; 

Whereas the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran has 

publicly acknowledged his nation’s pursuit of all of the 

necessary nuclear components for the construction of a 

nuclear bomb; 

Whereas in 1997 the International Atomic Energy Agency 

concluded an Additional Protocol that requires member 

states to submit an expanded declaration that includes 

the identification of all buildings at any nuclear-related 

facility, regardless of purpose, and grants inspectors 

greatly expanded access rights, including access to nuclear-related locations at which nuclear materials are not 

necessarily present and the ability to perform large- and 
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small-scale environmental surveys to determine compliance; 

Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran remains the only state 

party to the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards that has neither signed nor ratified the Additional 

Protocol and has rejected calls for enhanced International 

Atomic Energy Agency inspections to ensure only civilian 

use for nuclear energy in that country; and 

Whereas the International Atomic Energy Agency has demonstrated the ability to locate and secure illicit nuclear 

weapons programs when given both the ability and the 

mandate to do so, but lacks the mandate to search for 

a nuclear weapons program in the Islamic Republic of 

Iran: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

2 (1) expresses its deep concern that the Islamic 

3 Republic of Iran may be attempting to acquire a nu4 clear weapons capability, in violation of the Treaty 

5 on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and 

6 that country’s International Atomic Energy Agency 

7 Safeguards Agreement; 

8 (2) calls on the President of the United States, 

9 the United Nations Security Council, and other 

10 countries to urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to ac11 cept an additional, safeguard-strengthening agree12 ment that gives the International Atomic Energy 

13 Agency far greater access in the Islamic Republic of 

14 Iran to assure against the presence of undeclared fa-
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1 cilities or the diversion of materials or technologies 

2 from safeguarded facilities; and 

3 (3) calls on the Islamic Republic of Iran to 

4 demonstrate its commitment to the Treaty on the 

5 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to peace 

6 and stability in the Middle East by accepting such 

7 an agreement.

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