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(2) ‘‘Iranians die but will not be suppressed!’’; and 
(3) 
‘‘Death 
to 
the 
dictator 
Ayatollah 
Ali 
Khamenei!’’; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has a long history of structural 
and legal discrimination against women, including bar-
riers for women seeking justice against domestic violence 
and criminal prohibitions against women singing or show-
ing hair in public and studying certain technical subjects; 
Whereas the Iranian regime approved of ‘‘depriving one social 
right or more’’ for any woman who posts an unveiled pic-
ture of herself on social media, and, in August 2022, ap-
proved of enforcing mandatory hijab laws through facial 
recognition; 
Whereas, through misogynistic criminal statutes, the Iranian 
regime for decades has detained and engaged in the on-
going persecution of women, including— 
(1) Saba Kord Afshari, who was sentenced to 15 
years in prison for posting videos to social media without 
a hijab and transferred into Ward 6 of the notorious 
Qarchak Women’s Prison, identified by the Secretary of 
the Treasury for gross violations of human rights; 
(2) 
Yasaman 
Aryani, 
her 
mother 
Monireh 
Arabshahi, and Mojgan Keshavarz, who were sentenced 
to serve five and a half years in prison for posting a video 
for International Women’s Day in 2019, during which 
they walked without headscarves through a metro train 
in Tehran, handing flowers to female passengers; 
(3) human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, who 
was sentenced in 2019 to 38 years in prison and 148 
lashes for providing legal defense services to women 
charged with not wearing a hijab;
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(4) Narges Mohammadi, a prominent rights advo-
cate, who— 
(A) was arrested in November 2021 on the sec-
ond anniversary of countrywide protests and is cur-
rently serving a 2-year sentence in prison; 
(B) was handed a further sentence of 15 
months imprisonment for ‘‘propaganda against the 
state’’; and 
(C) previously, had been sentenced to 10 years 
in prison in May 2015 for ‘‘establishing an illegal 
group’’, ‘‘assembly and collusion to act against na-
tional security’’, and ‘‘propaganda against the 
state’’; 
(5) former Vice President for Women and Family 
Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi, who was charged with en-
couraging ‘‘corruption, prostitution, and sexual devi-
ance’’, a common charge against women refusing manda-
tory hijab laws, and sentenced in December 2020 to 30 
months in prison for defending the right of women to at-
tend sporting events and criticizing the practice of child 
marriage; 
(6) six women who were sentenced by the Culture 
and Media Court of Tehran in July 2022 to each serve 
1 year in prison for the offense of singing songs in pub-
lic; 
(7) Niloofar Hamedi, one of the first Iranian jour-
nalists to report on Mahsa Amini’s death, who was ar-
rested on September 22, 2022, and is being held in soli-
tary confinement; and 
(8) countless other women; and 
Whereas peaceful protests in Iran over the last year have fo-
cused on grievances that include—
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(1) mismanagement of the economy and national re-
sources; 
(2) prioritization of funding for terror groups and 
pariah regimes over social services for the people of Iran; 
and 
(3) widespread political corruption: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) condemns— 
(A) the brutal beating and death of Mahsa 
Amini; and 
(B) the violent suppression by the Iranian 
regime of women and men participating in the 
current demonstrations, including children, and 
calls for transparent accountability for all 
killings of protesters by Iranian security forces; 
(2) supports the women and men of Iran who 
are— 
(A) participating in the current protests to 
defend their fundamental human rights; and 
(B) risking their safety to speak out 
against the human rights abuses committed by 
the Iranian regime; 
(3) supports internet freedom programs that 
circumvent the regime and provide support for 
VPNs and other alternatives that can be used to by-
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pass attempts by authoritarian governments to cen-
sor internet access during times of protest, and com-
mends private entities willing to provide programs to 
circumvent such censorship; 
(4) encourages continued efforts by the Biden 
Administration to respond to the protests, including 
the recent sanctioning of the Iranian morality police, 
and further encourages the Biden Administration— 
(A) to immediately impose, under existing 
authorities, additional human rights sanctions 
on officials and entities responsible for the re-
pression of the current protests; 
(B) to prioritize efforts to expand unre-
stricted internet access in Iran, consistent with 
existing law; and 
(C) to work to develop a strategy to pre-
vent the Iranian regime from obtaining and ex-
ploiting facial recognition data and software for 
the use of mass surveillance and enforcement of 
mandatory hijab; 
(5) encourages the private sector, following the 
recent clarification by the Biden Administration of 
sanctions exemptions on communications technology, 
to work with the Biden Administration to ensure 
protestors and activists have access to tools needed
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to circumvent government surveillance and repres-
sion; and 
(6) welcomes the efforts of the international 
community to support protestors in Iran, and calls 
on the international community— 
(A) to publicly condemn violence by the 
Iranian regime against peaceful protesters; 
(B) to speak out against violations by the 
regime of fundamental human rights, including 
the freedom of expression, assembly, and re-
dress of grievances of the Iranian people; and 
(C) to impose human rights sanctions on 
officials and entities that are responsible for the 
repression of current protests and involved in 
violating the human rights of the Iranian peo-
ple. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 25, 
2023. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 7 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning the Iranian regime’s human rights 
abuses against the brave women and men of Iran 
peacefully demonstrating in more than 133 cities.