IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1181 
Calling on the United Nations General Assembly to reject the Islamic Republic 
of Iran’s bid to join the United Nations Human Rights Council. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 12, 2010 
Mr. MCCOTTER (for himself and Mr. POE of Texas) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Calling on the United Nations General Assembly to reject 
the Islamic Republic of Iran’s bid to join the United 
Nations Human Rights Council. 
Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran is broadly considered 
one of the world’s worst human rights violators; 
Whereas Iran routinely discriminates against and persecutes 
its Sunni and Sufi religious minorities as well as Iranian 
Shi’ite religious dissenters; 
Whereas, since 1979, the Iranian regime officials have exe-
cuted over 200 Baha’i leaders and imposed numerous dis-
criminatory policies to disenfranchise its Baha’i citizens; 
Whereas the Iranian regime continues to officially incite anti- 
Semitic hatred, promote Holocaust denial through its 
state-controlled media, require Jewish schools remain 
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open on the Sabbath, and create a climate of hostility 
and intimidation for Iranian Jews; 
Whereas the Iranian regime regularly harasses, physically at-
tacks, arrests, and imprisons its Christian citizens; 
Whereas the Iranian regime uses intimidation, physical at-
tacks, arbitrary arrests, and prolonged detainment to en-
sure its Arab, Azeri, Baluchi, Kurdish, and Turkmen mi-
norities remain politically and economically marginalized; 
Whereas the Iranian regime specially singles out Iranian 
human rights defenders for arrest, imprisonment, and 
execution; 
Whereas the Iranian regime continues to repress dissent by 
restricting access to the Internet, banning newspapers 
and journals, expelling pro-reform students from univer-
sities, and prosecuting critical journalists; 
Whereas the Iranian regime uses government-controlled Is-
lamic Labor Councils to discourage Iranian workers from 
forming free and independent labor unions and to prevent 
Iranian workers from engaging in independent collective 
bargaining; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has repeatedly resorted to forced 
retirement, physical violence, and arbitrary arrest to re-
spond to striking Iranian workers; 
Whereas Iranian Revolutionary Courts conduct secret and 
summary trials, some lasting only five minutes in dura-
tion; 
Whereas the Iranian regime subjects its citizens to degrading 
and cruel punishments such as flogging and amputation 
of limbs; 
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Whereas the Iranian regime uses the charges of ‘‘waging war 
against God’’ and ‘‘spreading corruption on earth’’ as a 
pretense for executing Iranian dissidents and prisoners of 
conscience; 
Whereas Iranian regime officials routinely engage in tortures 
such as beatings, long confinement in contorted positions, 
cigarette burns, hanging detainees by their arms or legs, 
striking the soles of feet, rape, and smearing prisoners 
with feces; 
Whereas, during the protests following the disputed June 12, 
2009, Iranian Presidential election, the Iranian regime 
and its paramilitary units fired upon and killed Iranian 
citizens with live ammunition; 
Whereas, during one of these protests on June 20, 2009, the 
pro-democracy demonstrator Neda Agha-Soltan was shot 
and killed by a member of the government paramilitary; 
Whereas the young Iranian woman, Taraneh Mousavi, was 
thrown in prison without a warrant, raped, tortured, and 
burned, with her remains being discarded on the side of 
the road; 
Whereas, in June 2009, at least 40 Iranian civilians were 
murdered by the Iranian regime’s post-election crack-
down; 
Whereas, after the disputed June 12, 2009, Iranian Presi-
dential election, the Iranian regime carried out a cam-
paign of repression with mass arrests of at least 4,000 
protestors and dissidents which produced numerous tor-
ture-induced confessions; 
Whereas, in January 2010, two of these dissidents, Moham-
mad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour, were exe-
cuted by hanging for their opposition activism; 
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Whereas, in Iran’s November 18, 2009, National Report sub-
mitted for the Seventh Session of the United Nations 
Human Rights Council, Iran admitted it is unable to up-
hold human rights standards because its legal structures 
are based on principles of Islam; 
Whereas, in this same report, Iran affirmed its inability to 
function as an international human rights promoter in 
stating, ‘‘Pressure or demands by other countries to ac-
cept and adopt certain Western standards of human 
rights will practically have[sic] negative impact on the 
promotion of human rights.’’; 
Whereas Iran is a 2010 candidate for United Nations Human 
Rights Council membership; and 
Whereas Iran’s election to the United Nations Human Rights 
Council would send a demoralizing message of indiffer-
ence to Iranian citizens that have endured repression, ar-
bitrary arrest, physical assault, and torture in their 
struggle to obtain their God-given human rights: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls on the United Nations General Assem-
bly to reject the Islamic Republic of Iran’s bid to 
join the United Nations Human Rights Council; and 
(2) urges the President to direct the United 
States Permanent Representative to the United Na-
tions to use the voice, vote, and influence of the 
United States at the United Nations to ensure Iran 
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does not gain membership on the United Nations 
Human Rights Council. 
Æ 
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