IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 139 
Expressing the policy of the United States to pursue and enter into a 
military treaty alliance of extended deterrence with the State of Israel. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 
Mr. CONAWAY (for himself and Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas) submitted the fol-
lowing concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the policy of the United States to pursue and 
enter into a military treaty alliance of extended deter-
rence with the State of Israel. 
Whereas the United States and Israel have a long history of 
mutually beneficial security cooperation; 
Whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran is engaging in desta-
bilizing activities such as the pursuit of nuclear weapons 
and the advanced development of ballistic missiles that 
threaten the United States and Israel; 
Whereas, according to testimony before the House Foreign 
Affairs Committee, under the Joint Comprehensive Plan 
of Action (JCPOA), restrictions to Iran’s ballistic missile 
development were reduced and Iran’s missile inventory is 
expected to double by 2030; 
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•HCON 139 IH 
Whereas in October 2020, the United Nations’ ban on assist-
ance to Iranian arms exports and imports will be lifted 
as a result of the JCPOA; 
Whereas in October 2023, the United Nations’ ban on assist-
ance to Iran’s ballistic missile program will be lifted as 
a result of the JCPOA; 
Whereas Iranian ballistic missiles are capable of reaching 
Israel; 
Whereas, according to congressional testimony, Iran has ‘‘the 
region’s largest and most diverse arsenal of ballistic mis-
siles’’; 
Whereas Iran continues to test and develop advanced ballistic 
missiles in ‘‘direct defiance of UN Security Council Reso-
lution 2231’’ according to the Department of State; 
Whereas the United States intelligence community assesses 
that Iran’s ballistic missiles are capable of delivering 
weapons of mass destruction; 
Whereas in 2017, the Department of State announced new 
sanctions against ‘‘18 entities and individuals supporting 
Iran’s ballistic missile program and for supporting Iran’s 
military procurement of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary 
Guard Corps, as well as an Iran-based transnational 
criminal organization and associated persons’’; 
Whereas the JCPOA allows Iran to continue to construct ad-
vanced centrifuges, such as the IR–4, IR–6, and IR–8 
centrifuges, that can produce highly enriched uranium at 
quick industrialized speeds, in return for retiring the in-
efficient, out-dated IR–1 centrifuges; 
Whereas Iran’s lead nuclear scientist and head of Iran’s 
Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi who was 
involved in the JCPOA negotiations, stated after conclu-
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•HCON 139 IH 
sion of the JCPOA: ‘‘According to the JCPOA, we have 
kept our nuclear program in accordance with our needs 
and requirements for research and development.’’; 
Whereas discussing the JCPOA, Iranian President Hassan 
Rouhani stated: ‘‘Before, only IR–1 centrifuges were ac-
tive, now we are operating IR–8 centrifuges, the most 
modern and advanced ones Iran has obtained.’’; 
Whereas Iran continues to advance its nuclear program; 
Whereas in 2018, on Iran’s National Nuclear Technology 
Day, the Iranian Government unveiled 83 new nuclear 
projects, twice the number announced in 2017; 
Whereas in 2018, Ali Akbar Salehi stated that Iran would re-
sume enrichment of up to 20 percent if the United States 
withdrew from the JCPOA; 
Whereas a spokesperson for the Iranian Government stated 
that Iran’s Fordow plant contained 1,600 operational 
centrifuges which contradicts the International Atomic 
Energy Agency’s assessment in February 2018 that no 
more than 1,044 centrifuges are at Fordow, a limit re-
quired by the JCPOA; 
Whereas in July 2018, Iran announced that it had built a 
new factory that can produce up to 60 centrifuges a day; 
Whereas Iran is on the path to possessing a nuclear weapon 
and the means by which to deliver a nuclear weapon; and 
Whereas the leadership of Iran has on numerous occasions 
threatened to destroy the United States and Israel: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That— 
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•HCON 139 IH 
(1) it is the policy of the United States to pur-
sue and enter into a military treaty alliance of ex-
tended deterrence with the State of Israel; 
(2) any military treaty alliance described in 
paragraph (1) should take effect upon verification by 
the Secretary of Defense and the intelligence com-
munity (as such term is defined in section 3(4) of 
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3003(4)) to the President that the Islamic Republic 
of Iran has developed a nuclear weapon; and 
(3) for purposes of paragraph (1), the term 
‘‘extended deterrence’’ means the security and assur-
ance provided by the protection of the nuclear forces 
of the United States. 
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