III 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 21 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 21, 2007 
Received and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Calling on the United Nations Security Council to charge 
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 
1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of 
the Crime of Genocide and the United Nations Charter 
because of his calls for the destruction of the State 
of Israel. 
Whereas the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punish-
ment of the Crime of Genocide (commonly referred to as 
the ‘‘Genocide Convention’’) defines genocide as, among 
other things, the act of killing members of a national, 
ethnic, racial, or religious group with the intent to de-
stroy, 
in 
whole 
or 
in 
part, 
the 
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targeted group, and it also prohibits conspiracy to com-
mit genocide, as well as ‘‘direct and public incitement to 
commit genocide’’; 
Whereas Article 4 of the Genocide Convention provides that 
individuals committing any of the listed genocidal crimes 
shall be punished ‘‘whether they are constitutionally re-
sponsible rulers, public officials or private individuals’’; 
Whereas 133 Member States of the United Nations have rati-
fied the Genocide Convention and thereby pledged to 
prosecute those individuals who violate its criteria for in-
citement to commit genocide, as well as those individuals 
who commit genocide directly; 
Whereas 62 years ago the United Nations was founded in the 
wake of the Holocaust, the Nazi genocide carried out 
during World War II that resulted in the slaughter of 6 
million Jews in Europe, in order to ‘‘save succeeding gen- 
erations from the scourge of war’’ and uphold and pro-
tect the ‘‘dignity and worth of the human person’’; 
Whereas Article 2, Section 4, of the United Nations Charter, 
to which Iran has agreed as a Member State of the 
United Nations, requires all Member States of the United 
Nations to ‘‘refrain in their international relations from 
the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity 
or political independence of any state’’; 
Whereas on October 26, 2005, at the World Without Zionism 
Conference in Tehran, Iran, Iranian leader Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be ‘‘wiped off the map’’, 
described Israel as ‘‘a disgraceful blot øon¿ the face of 
the Islamic world’’, and declared that ‘‘øa¿nybody who 
recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic na-
tion’s fury’’; 
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Whereas on December 12, 2006, Iranian leader Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad addressed a conference in Tehran ques-
tioning the historical veracity of the Holocaust and said 
that Israel would ‘‘soon be wiped out’’; 
Whereas on December 15, 2000, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali 
Khamene’i stated to thousands of Muslim worshippers in 
Tehran that ‘‘Iran’s stance has always been clear on this 
ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that 
this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from 
the region’’; 
Whereas other Iranian leaders have made similar statements 
and the Government of Iran has displayed inflammatory 
symbols that express similar intent; 
Whereas on December 14, 2006, incoming United Nations 
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Iran’s calls for 
Israel’s destruction and its dismissal of the Holocaust are 
‘‘unacceptable’’, and expressed concern about the regional 
and global security implications of Tehran’s nuclear pro-
gram; 
Whereas on August 3, 2006, in a speech during an emer-
gency meeting of Muslim leaders, Iranian leader 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that the Middle East 
would be better off ‘‘without the existence of the Zionist 
regime’’, called Israel an ‘‘illegitimate regime’’ with ‘‘no 
legal basis for its existence’’, and accused the United 
States of using Israel as a proxy to control the region 
and its oil resources; 
Whereas Iran funds, trains, and openly supports terrorist 
groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad 
among many others, all of which have murdered Ameri-
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cans, Israelis, and non-Israeli Jews and are determined 
to destroy Israel; 
Whereas on December 14, 2001, former leader of Iran and 
current leader of Iran’s influential Expediency Council 
Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani threatened Israel with de-
struction by nuclear attack, saying, ‘‘øi¿f one day, the Is-
lamic world is also equipped with weapons like those that 
Israel possesses now, then the imperialists’ strategy will 
reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear 
bomb inside Israel will destroy everything øin Israel¿, 
while it will merely harm the Islamic world’’; 
Whereas Iran has aggressively pursued a clandestine effort to 
arm itself with nuclear weapons; and 
Whereas the longstanding policy of the Iranian regime is 
aimed at destroying the democratic State of Israel, a vital 
United States ally and longstanding friend, which is con-
firmed by statements such as those made by Iranian 
leader Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Khamene’i, and 
Expediency Council leader Rafsanjani, demonstrating the 
threat of a nuclear-armed Iran: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) condemns, in the strongest terms, Iranian 
leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s offensive remarks, 
contemptible statements, and reprehensible policies 
aimed at the destruction of the State of Israel; 
(2) calls on the United Nations Security Coun-
cil to take up charges against Iranian leader 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for violating the 1948 Con-
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vention on the Prevention and Punishment of the 
Crime of Genocide and Article 2, Section 4, of the 
United Nations Charter; 
(3) further calls on the United Nations Security 
Council and all Member States of the United Na-
tions to consider stronger measures to prevent Iran 
from obtaining nuclear weapons, which would be 
both a dangerous violation of the Nuclear Non-Pro-
liferation Treaty and a potential means to the end 
of carrying out Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threats 
against Israel; and 
(4) reaffirms the unwavering strategic partner-
ship and close friendship between the United States 
and Israel and reasserts the steadfast commitment 
of the United States to defend the right of Israel to 
exist as a free and democratic state. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 20, 2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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