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 cre-
ated 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 accu-
mulation of both highly-enriched uranium and nuclear-
weapons 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 inter-
national law from developing nuclear weapons; 
Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran joined the International 
Atomic Energy Agency in 1958 and, through its safe-
guards agreement with that Agency, is required to allow 
inspections of all declared and suspected nuclear and nu-
clear-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 nu-
clear-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 compli-
ance; 
Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran remains the only state 
party to the International Atomic Energy Agency safe-
guards 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 dem-
onstrated 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
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) expresses its deep concern that the Islamic 
Republic of Iran may be attempting to acquire a nu-
clear weapons capability, in violation of the Treaty 
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and 
that country’s International Atomic Energy Agency 
Safeguards Agreement; 
(2) calls on the President of the United States, 
the United Nations Security Council, and other 
countries to urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to ac-
cept an additional, safeguard-strengthening agree-
ment that gives the International Atomic Energy 
Agency far greater access in the Islamic Republic of 
Iran to assure against the presence of undeclared fa-
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cilities or the diversion of materials or technologies 
from safeguarded facilities; and 
(3) calls on the Islamic Republic of Iran to 
demonstrate its commitment to the Treaty on the 
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to peace 
and stability in the Middle East by accepting such 
an agreement.
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