IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 362 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international 
peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security inter-
ests of the United States by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and 
regional hegemony, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 22, 2008 
Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself and Mr. PENCE) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed 
to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and 
the vital national security interests of the United States 
by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegem-
ony, and for other purposes. 
Whereas Iran is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Prolifera-
tion of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has foresworn the ac-
quisition of nuclear weapons by ratification of the NPT, 
and is legally bound to declare and place all its nuclear 
activity under constant monitoring by the International 
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); 
Whereas for nearly 20 years, in clear contravention of its ex-
plicit obligations under the NPT, Iran operated a covert 
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nuclear program until it was revealed by an Iranian op-
position group in 2002; 
Whereas the IAEA has confirmed such illicit covert nuclear 
activities as the importation of uranium hexafluoride, 
construction of a uranium enrichment facility, experimen-
tation with plutonium, importation of centrifuge tech-
nology, construction of centrifuges, and importation of 
designs to convert highly enriched uranium gas into 
metal and shape it into the core of a nuclear weapon; 
Whereas Iran continues to expand the number of centrifuges 
at its enrichment facility, as made evident by its an-
nounced intention to begin installation of 6,000 advanced 
centrifuges to enrich uranium, in defiance of binding 
United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding 
Iran suspend enrichment activities; 
Whereas the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate 
reported that Iran was secretly working on the design 
and manufacture of a nuclear warhead until at least 
2003, but that Iran could have enough highly enriched 
uranium for a nuclear weapon as soon as late 2009; 
Whereas an Iranian nuclear weapons capability would pose a 
grave threat to international peace and security by fun-
damentally altering and destabilizing the strategic bal-
ance in the Middle East, and severely undermining the 
global nonproliferation regime; 
Whereas Iran’s overt sponsorship of several terrorist groups, 
including Hamas and Hezbollah, and its close ties to 
Syria raise the possibility that Iran would share its nu-
clear materials and technology with others; 
Whereas Iran continues to develop ballistic missile technology 
and is pursuing the capability to field intercontinental 
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ballistic missiles, a delivery system suited almost exclu-
sively to nuclear weapons payloads; 
Whereas Iranian leaders have repeatedly called for the de-
struction of Israel, a major non-North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization ally, and a member of the United Nations; 
Whereas the United States, Russia, China, France, the 
United Kingdom, and Germany have offered, and con-
tinue to offer, to negotiate a significant package of eco-
nomic, diplomatic, and security incentives if Iran com-
plies with the United Nations Security Council’s resolu-
tions demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment; 
Whereas Iran has consistently refused such offers; 
Whereas as a result of Iran’s failure to comply with the man-
dates of the United Nations Security Council, taken 
under Chapter VII of the United Nations’ Charter, the 
international community has imposed limited sanctions 
over the past 2 years that have begun to have an impact 
on the Iranian economy; 
Whereas Iran’s rapid development of its nuclear capabilities 
is outpacing the slow ratcheting up of economic and dip-
lomatic sanctions; 
Whereas Iran has used its banking system, including the 
Central Bank of Iran, to support its proliferation efforts 
and its assistance to terrorist groups, leading the Depart-
ment of Treasury to designate 4 large Iranian banks 
proliferators and supporters of terrorism; 
Whereas Iran’s support for Hezbollah has enabled that group 
to wage war against the Government and people of Leb-
anon, leading to its political domination of that country; 
Whereas Iran’s support for Hamas has enabled it to illegally 
seize control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority, and 
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to continuously bombard Israeli civilians with rockets and 
mortars; 
Whereas Iran continues to provide training, weapons, and fi-
nancial assistance to Shi’a militants inside of Iraq and 
antigovernment warlords in Afghanistan; 
Whereas those Shi’a militant groups and Afghan warlords 
use Iranian training, weapons, and financing to attack 
American and allied forces trying to support the legiti-
mate Governments of Iraq and Afghanistan; 
Whereas Iran is further destabilizing the Middle East by un-
derwriting a massive rearmament campaign by Syria; 
Whereas through these efforts, Iran seeks to establish re-
gional hegemony, threatens longstanding friends and al-
lies of the United States in the Middle East, and endan-
gers vital American national security interests; and 
Whereas nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an 
authorization of the use of force against Iran: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) declares that preventing Iran from acquir-
ing a nuclear weapons capability, through all appro-
priate economic, political, and diplomatic means, is 
vital to the national security interests of the United 
States and must be dealt with urgently; 
(2) urges the President, in the strongest of 
terms, to immediately use his existing authority to 
impose sanctions on— 
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(A) the Central Bank of Iran and any 
other Iranian bank engaged in proliferation ac-
tivities or the support of terrorist groups; 
(B) international banks which continue to 
conduct financial transactions with proscribed 
Iranian banks; 
(C) energy companies that have invested 
$20,000,000 or more in the Iranian petroleum 
or natural gas sector in any given year since 
the enactment of the Iran Sanctions Act of 
1996; and 
(D) all companies which continue to do 
business with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary 
Guard Corps; 
(3) demands that the President initiate an 
international effort to immediately and dramatically 
increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pres-
sure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrich-
ment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export 
to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing 
stringent inspection requirements on all persons, ve-
hicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or 
departing Iran; and prohibiting the international 
movement of all Iranian officials not involved in ne-
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