IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 310 
Condemning the inaction by the Islamic Republic of Iran in addressing the 
poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls, the Daughters of the Iranian Revolution. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 20, 2023 
Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Ms. MACE, Ms. ROSS, Mr. CURTIS, Mr. 
PAYNE, Mr. BACON, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. COSTA, Mr. 
PETERS, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, 
Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. 
GOODEN of Texas, Mr. COHEN, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mrs. KIM of Cali-
fornia, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California, and Ms. CHU) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the inaction by the Islamic Republic of Iran 
in addressing the poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls, the 
Daughters of the Iranian Revolution. 
Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fun-
damental freedoms for which reason they are rejecting 
monarchic dictatorship and religious tyranny, as evident 
in their protest slogans; 
Whereas more than 5,000 schoolgirls at more than 26 schools 
in 29 of Iran’s 31 provinces have now been hit by the 
poison gas since the first attacks in the city of Qom in 
November 2022; 
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Whereas, according to a October 5, 2022, report by France 
24, ‘‘Iran schoolgirls lead protests over Mahsa Amini[’s] 
death’’; 
Whereas, since the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 
2022, many schoolgirls have been active in protests and 
tearing up pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali 
Khamenei, calling for his death; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has been slow to respond, and 
angry parents are turning out in droves to challenge the 
regime and are calling the attacks ‘‘targeted and delib-
erate’’ to keep girls from getting an education; 
Whereas protests have erupted in more than a dozen cities 
across Iran over the poisoning of thousands of schoolgirls 
and the government’s inability to contain the growing cri-
sis with chants of ‘‘Death to the child-killing regime.’’; 
Whereas, in several cities, security forces have unleashed tear 
gas against people who were peacefully protesting the 
lack of action taken by the government to provide safety 
and security for schoolgirls; 
Whereas the Iranian judiciary has targeted journalists who 
have reported on the schoolgirls’ poisonings, accusing 
them of ‘‘spreading lies and rumors’’; 
Whereas the United States and the United Nations (UN) 
have called on the Iranian regime to fully investigate the 
suspected poisonings of schoolgirls and hold those respon-
sible to account; 
Whereas the United Nations High Commissioner for Human 
Rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani has said, 
‘‘We’re very concerned about these allegations that girls 
are being deliberately targeted under what appear to be 
mysterious circumstances.’’; 
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Whereas the World Health Organization’s (WHO) spokes-
woman Margaret Harris stated that the agency contacted 
national health authorities and medical professionals 
about these incidents while ‘‘using other means to under-
stand more about the event so that we have better evi-
dence’’; 
Whereas medics, teachers, and parents accuse the Iranian au-
thorities of silencing victims of suspected poisoning at-
tacks; 
Whereas the Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has ignored 
the attacks for more than 100 days and has responded 
with blaming protestors for the gas attacks on school-
girls; 
Whereas, on September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) 
Amini was killed in custody by the Iranian ‘‘morality po-
lice’’, which sparked the nationwide uprising for the last 
six months; 
Whereas women and youth have led the 2022 protests in 
Iran, demanding social freedom and political change; 
Whereas these protests are rooted in the more than four dec-
ades of organized resistance against the Iranian dictator-
ship, which have been led by women who have endured 
torture, sexual and gender-based violence, and death; 
Whereas, according to a December 9, 2022, Amnesty Inter-
national report, ‘‘Iran’s security forces have killed with 
absolute impunity at least 44 children and injured many 
more in a bid to crush the spirit of resistance among the 
country’s youth and retain their iron grip on power at 
any cost’’; 
Whereas the similarity in slogans and tactics used by protests 
nationwide reflects the overarching demands of the Ira-
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nian people and points to the organized nature of the 
protests; 
Whereas, on December 14, 2022, the United Nations Eco-
nomic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a resolu-
tion to expel Iran from the Commission on the Status of 
Women (CSW) for the remainder of its 4-year term end-
ing in 2026; 
Whereas the Department of State’s 2021 Country Reports on 
Human Rights Practices, released on April 13, 2022, 
cites that Iran’s ‘‘government and its agents reportedly 
committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, most commonly 
executions for crimes not meeting the international legal 
standard of ‘most serious crimes’ or for crimes committed 
by juvenile offenders, as well as executions after trials 
without due process’’; 
Whereas, on October 25, 2021, the United Nations Special 
Rapporteur (UNSR) on the situation of human rights in 
the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, told the 
United Nations General Assembly that almost all execu-
tions in the country constituted an arbitrary deprivation 
of life, noting the ‘‘extensive, vague and arbitrary 
grounds in Iran for imposing the death sentence, which 
quickly can turn this punishment into a political tool’’; 
Whereas, on January 13, 2022, a United Nations report has 
urged ‘‘the international community to call for account-
ability with respect to long-standing emblematic events 
that have been met with persistent impunity, including 
the enforced disappearances and summary and arbitrary 
executions of 1988 and the November 2019 protests’’; 
Whereas the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 
1988 was carried out based on a fatwa to execute all po-
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litical prisoners, including women and schoolgirls, who re-
mained loyal to the Iranian Resistance, and subsequent 
death commissions were formed on July 19, 1988, whose 
members included the current Iranian regime’s President, 
Ebrahim Raisi, an official from the Ministry of Intel-
ligence, and a state prosecutor, to implement the fatwa; 
Whereas, to date, 229 Members of the House of Representa-
tives in the 118th Congress have signed on as cosponsors 
of H. Res. 100, ‘‘Expressing support for the Iranian peo-
ple’s desire for a democratic, secular, and nonnuclear Re-
public of Iran, and condemning violations of human 
rights and state-sponsored terrorism by the Iranian Gov-
ernment.’’; 
Whereas the large presence of young people, especially female 
students, in the recent protests have angered authorities, 
and in a speech broadcasted on Iran’s state TV on Octo-
ber 3, 2022, the Supreme Leader promised to punish 
youths who were involved; 
Whereas, over the past four decades, the Iranian regime has 
falsely attributed acid attacks on women, the litany of 
murders of writers and intellectuals, and the murder of 
Christian priests to foreign elements and the democratic 
opposition to the regime; 
Whereas women from all walks of life and social inclinations 
have played a prominent role in the nationwide uprising; 
Whereas the rallying cry of protesting women inside and out-
side Iran is ‘‘With or without hijab, onward to revolu-
tion.’’, which rejects compulsory hijab and respects wom-
en’s freedom to choose their own attire; 
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Whereas the people of Iran, both men and women, are 
against compulsory religion, compulsory hijab, and com-
pulsory government; 
Whereas the efforts by regime authorities to minimize these 
poisonings are reflected in the remarks by the Minister 
of Education of Iran on February 15, 2023, in which he 
said, ‘‘Most of the poisoning of students in Qom is 
caused by rumors that have scared the people and stu-
dents, and some of them had pre-existing diseases’’; 
Whereas, according to a March 6, 2023, report by the judi-
cial news agency, Mizan, the head of Iran’s judiciary, in-
stead of arresting the perpetrators of the crime, they 
threatened those who exposed this crime and stated, 
‘‘The local Justice Departments in all provinces were or-
dered to set up a branch in the provincial capital to sum-
mon the people who spread lies in the case of 
poisonings’’; 
Whereas a statement by the Ministry of Interior on March 
12, 2023, attributed chemical attacks to ‘‘mischievous 
and adventurous’’ students ‘‘with the aim of closing 
classes’’ and ‘‘using smelly substances’’, or to ‘‘opponents 
and enemies (of the state)’’; 
Whereas Iranian state-run media have quoted experts that 
poisonous gas used to target schoolgirls is of the kind 
that is not available to the public; 
Whereas physicians and nurses are prohibited from sharing 
any information about the poisoning of the schoolgirls; 
and 
Whereas senior Iranian Government, military, judicial, and 
security officials have for decades ordered or committed 
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egregious human rights violations and acts of terror: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns— 
(A) the deliberate gas attacks on the 
schoolgirls in Iran; and 
(B) the violent suppression by the Iranian 
regime of schoolgirls, men, and women who par-
ticipating in demonstrations, and calls for 
transparent accountability for all killings of 
protesters by Iranian security forces; and 
(2) urges the United States Government to— 
(A) initiate a formal process for an inde-
pendent investigation of the gas attacks on the 
schoolgirls in Iran; 
(B) work with the United Nations to send 
an independent fact-finding mission to Iran; 
and 
(C) work with the World Health Organiza-
tion to provide a transparent report to Con-
gress, based on an independent investigation, 
on how these attacks are taking place and who 
is behind these attacks on schoolgirls in Iran. 
Æ 
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